Raj Arumugam Poems

In the old days
when I was a nobody
I needed a mentor
in order to groom me into success
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Shut up!
says the room to the door
you're just a barrier
whereas I am the space
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badgered into taking an IQ test
by one of these highly intelligent
inescapable IQ popups
highly evolved too
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be an adorable child
the sort old women
go ga-ga about;
and old men say:
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and so it has come to pass
that the masculine in poetry is suspect
the feminine distorted into clichés;
that poetry must be effeminate
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come living beings, all of life
all forms and creatures
seen and unseen;
come and listen and sing
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(1)
There’s one thing I must get off my chest
that’s bothered me now
even 50 years on
with the passage of time –
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1)
my wife came out of the shower
last month
still unwashed and dry as a bone
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