Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

A god man is interested in you
As much as an Insurance Agent is.
They are interested in their carriers.
They have no botheration about you.
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I write, not so much to spread its contents
As to spread my name along with that writes.
My urge is the people must know my name
Notwithstanding their reading the contents.
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The goodwill and the ill-will earned will die
When the people who know about them die.
However great or low I grow in life,
I’ll be dust to ensuing generations.
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Talk to men only about business.
Don’t be close to men.
Let no man to be too kind to you.
Thus said my aunts and uncles
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Man, who walks faster than woman,
Must walks to the speed of his woman
When they together make a stroll.
Man, who is quicker than woman,
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Other than my child no one is enchanting.
Other than my wife, no woman fails to charm.
Other than my wife, no woman gives access.
This is the fate each man is undergoing.
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He died at ninety two miserably,
Subjected to curses, humiliations,
Neglects, together with immobility.
His mother, if alive, would have wept.
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I haven’t felt pain when I pelted
But I feel pain when I am pelted.
At my old age I will be pelted
By those who by me have been pelted.
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Religions are built on hypotheses.
Histories are built on hypotheses.
Science is discovering on hypotheses.
Hypotheses are believed to be true.
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A woman hooks a man in many ways.
A wife books him under dowry case.
A maid shakes him under molestation.
A colleague sends him for sexual harassment.
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