Raj Arumugam Poems

We creep into our beds
cold, lonely and sinking.
There is an emptiness that pervades all
as one lies in bed, a wingless pod covered by cloth
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Gloomy as I walked
a sad face floated past me in the street
and I recalled in
The Westside News
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Today I bought a book of Goya's works
and we debated at home if an unemployed man
should have $30 for Goya. Goya is priceless,
there was no dispute, but what's the price
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Those of you who would have your children learn
good manners, politeness and subtlety,
I tell you
for what my twenty years of experience
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Come, let us sit below this tree.

Calm and at peace, come with me, if you will, and let us sit below this tree.
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we have walked this path before
we know these days;
this harshness is not unknown to us
and we ended often with a smile
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we are locked in enclosures
rooms and offices and cars
and planes and shopping centers
and thought traps and traditions
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a)

I’ve got a book
which is the Book
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come, sweet love
I’ll live with you
in the trees;
we’ll make love when we’re on heat
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