Raj Dronamraju Poems

They came to arrest us
To force a sort of peace on us
To send us outside their self contained illusion
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Would you be my Narcissus?
Stare at me as if I was your reflection in a pool of water?
Not eating, not drinking, only focus on me, me as you
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Anarchy and a sense of humor go hand in hand
In fact, I don't think you can have one without the other
I don't think you can have an anonymous dialogue without hecklers
No harm, no foul, nothing personal in a controlled environment
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The naked eye cannot perceive the scale of you
And at first I'd thought I'd bitten off more than I could chew
Most of the serious talks disintegrated into silliness which was surprising
The gossip I'd heard from other people made it sound as if you were angry about something
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Now that we are done with pretension
And bringing grace to bad causes
She could give her rendition in a quiet tired section of the cobweb
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I'm not a doctor but I write like one
Illegible doodles make the teachers rap my knuckles
And the snakes crawl through my fingers
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I have nothing left to offer
Nothing to give that would make me seem less pathetic
Among otter faced girls whose playful antics take a sinister turn
Keeping the ball away, pretending I'm not there
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Didn't reduce speed in the parking lot
Pressed the accelerator in a school zone
Knew her for a month or an afternoon
Felt the car go into the air and temporarily lose control as it hit her
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We were played songs that re-enforced the commonness of our existence
When what we wanted was the gleaming future of phantom metal sprung up cities
Original design - the product of a sleek, sure idiosyncrasy
It had never been copied because it had never been heard
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Excuses made to wives, lovers, supervisors, friends let down
Dreams engineered for the safest possible outcome
I am more than a golem that shambles away from excuses
I base all my actions on other things happening first
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