Raj Arumugam Poems

every Jack will have his Jill
and every Jill will get a jackass;
the problem is often
there are too many lumberjacks
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the shirt and the long pants
were each on a hanger
in the closet
and the shirt said to the pants:
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you’re a comic
you pretend to be Socratic
put on airs of the Platonic
it’s all so obvious
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you sit on a hill
perhaps in the shade below
a kind tree
(or perhaps on your chair
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O, do not fear
four-letter words;
you need not tremble
at shallow vocabulary
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the toothpaste
was feeling complacent:
toothbrush likes me
teeth like me
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the door says to the air:
have you ever considered
I create a room
just
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the carpet says to the wall:
stay away from me!
and the wall says to the ceiling:
stay away from me!
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all day it rains
and the lilly-pilly
with her green leaves
and pink flush on her head
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