Raj Dronamraju Poems

Hang around with people I don't really like
Drive around for miles in cement decadence
Hold court in distance, each freeway exit is like a foreign country
Here's your border and on the other side is quivering jello
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Upstairs is the place where they found you too meticulous
Went off like fireworks when they saw the pasted together montage
Hypochondriacs in their hysteria, professional in focus on self
You found the threat of injury from all those around you
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At the part where one is taken down a peg or two
Which for her was when she broke her back in a car accident
Tap her wrist, numb percussion and externalized sensation
I assumed a change in circumstance taught her to be nice
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Before you could say a word, the world spoke up and admitted you make it feel uncomfortable
You are too forceful, too quick to talk over others

You would like to talk about how you are not comfortable, how you cannot be yourself in this world
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The iconoclast and the plumes of ethereal effort curling and vanishing up his own noggin
He knows enough but cannot make commands understandable to thick hands
The tools demanded by this task are readily given
Flawed initiation in the setting of inside
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The phrase "I want to be inside you" just makes people laugh
We laughed when I said it as no one takes this talk of the physical seriously
Dear sow, what we can talk about is that you are from Kenya
I bought her coffee at the train station and we talked of this
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I've got listicles and pistols
And cut up rows of meaning to be inserted or loaded in a chamber and fired into thought

I've got listicles and pistols
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It took me a long time to learn to make excuses
To proceed in the pattern of fearless request
Reality superimposed and consequence free
Surprise, surprise, hurting other people doesn't come from this
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Take a load off
Punch the girl you love in the face figuratively speaking
Refuse to go to work and hide in the basement
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I embrace you as a scientist
And as someone who uses reason
Who views you long term as someone who barely makes sense
But oh the valuable quality of the sense you make
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