Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Big men are the untried thieves.
Thieves are the convicted poor.
Donors are the untried swindlers.
swindlers are the exposed petty.
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Fear takes away your pleasure
When you smoke in a prohibited place.
Fear takes away your pleasure
When you sleep with a forbidden person.
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The ex-minister is still the minister
And the ex-lover is still the lover
As far as the incumbents are concerned.
That late Ram must be Mr. Ram is Ram’s wish.
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Children born,
Wife is secondary in love.
Children born,
Husband is elementary in love.
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There is no life time sweet heart.
There is no life time relative.
There is no life time deity.
Visions grow to accommodate the new.
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To wait for a baby;
To wait for an event;
To wait for a result.
Anything to wait for
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A young, handsome doctor as I was,
I had had two types of clients:
Aunties with nothing wrong with them,
Who paid handsomely for my bedroom manners;
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Someone hurts someone;
I witness it and pass.
Someone falls down somewhere;
I witness and pass.
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Women stand before the mirror,
Frequently and constantly,
At the stage of their puberty
And at the stage of their menopause.
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Albert Einstein, the eminent scientist,
Once asked for an impossible sum
From the Advanced Study in Princeton.
Coxed, he agreed to a larger salary.
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