Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

You adopt what the upper class practise.
You put on what the upper class wear.
You ape the upper class in all forms
With strain to be up in their estimation.
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No fiction is as interesting
As the one indolent with love.
No edition is as interesting
As the one indolent with sex.
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One bets on horses, another on cards,
The third one on stocks, thus they push their tides.
Nor for food do they wage for they are rich
It is ego’s urge that propels them to do.
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Don’t be greedy;
It is enough.
Everyone will love you.
It makes you
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Yes, no one could you trust in absolute,
Nor could you afford to mistrust either.
Cheats and patrons are parts of occurrence.
It is fate that would lead you to a state.
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A woman is desperate
To give birth to a baby.
No one has time to mind it though.
A writer is desperate
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To some I am supplicant,
To some I am a supplement,
To some I am a client and
To some I am benevolent.
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A buyer had a seller in a deal.
Each did it as that was the best.
To the buyer it was like a horse
And to the seller it was like an ass.
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