A Useless Poem Poem by Raj Arumugam

A Useless Poem



a useless poem (or the fun of uselessness)



the sun is useless
because it shines
when it’s already bright enough;
and the moon is useless
because it never shines bright enough;
and the stars are simply
as useless as pimples on one’s face;
and wealth is useless
because I wasted them all;
my spouse is useless
because I never get what I want;
and this poem is useless as it makes no point
and the writer of this poem is useless
because like the name of Oedipus
the writer’s name is never accepted in any country
one comes to or lives in;
and teeth are useless
because they rot and dropp
when you need them most
and it costs a fortune to fix them all;
hair is useless because they gray and fall
and when they are shiny and glossy they
attract all the wrong sort of partners
who want to plant wild oats
and move on to greener pastures;
and the earth is useless
because it can’t spin fast enough
to throw out offal and homo sapiens;
and the oceans are useless,
because, quite frankly, I can’t swim…

and if you can’t add an item or two
or some sensible lines that are useless,
not unlike all the preceding lines,
then, quite frankly, you are useless too…

and even if you add two sensibly useless lines
you’d be useless for wasting double time
once reading this poem and keying in a response…

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Nivedita Bagchi SPC UK 10 June 2010

Climaxed I’m by satire May I add to be ‘double- useless’ as commentator …I’m so…and enjoy it Sir lolol 10//10 [goofed box again proved my vote useless] Ms. Nivedita UK

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Samanyan Lakshminarayanan 23 October 2009

hilarious the best this poem was very useful...made one think...smile and finally you split into a laughter...a uselessly useful poem

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rago rago 23 October 2009

a useless response.......from this useless earth...............yet with love and smile smile smile...............

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