Raj Arumugam Poems

what did we do?
we made love and rolled over in our beds;
and whispered sweet words as afterplay
and whispered words of genuine love
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colorful and evocative
of Goddess Good Luck
and Dame Good Fortune
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all who speak of God
in such loving terms
are the same
(I do not say obscene,
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Don’t break your dollar
get it home intact, brother
Be it twenty or thirty
be clever and thrifty -
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poet A stayed in the tried lines
of safe society and accepted notions
and sanctity and decorum and respect;
poet B chose what one could see for oneself
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how many coins do we have? you count
and I’ll see; call out as you count, tell me
how much exactly; and then how many days
it will take us to…Little Boy with his crutches
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hey, you adults -
you oafs, you ogres, you nincompoops
big-headed, pigheaded
you unwieldy, big, overgrown humans
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Oh noble exclamation mark!
I expel! I exclaim!
Oh most excitable exclamation mark!
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it would appear the semi-colon
has an identity crisis;
it might appear
it can’t decide if it’s a dot
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