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Raj Arumugam Dec 2011
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zzzzz.....zzzzz...shhh.....zzzzz.
shhh....be quiet!.....zzzzz....
it’s the quiet of night
and everyone’s asleep...
so be quiet....zzzzzzzzzzz...

he-body is in bed
and see, beside is she-body
and both owners are fast asleep
but bodies speak even in sleep
shhh....be quiet!.....zzzzz....
zzzzz.....zzzzz...shhh.....zzzzz.


2
one turns in sleep
click! the neck says
ssssuuu!
a big toe scratches the mattress

silence

hmmm...mmmm...hmmmm...
that’s the in-breath, out-breath
as the bodies communicate


growl! it’s an empty tummy
and tchk! says the tongue
as it feels thirsty;
swwwwwirl!
says the blanket
as she-body pulls more of it



3

zzzzz.....zzzzz...shhh.....zzzzz.
shhh....be quiet!.....zzzzz....
it’s the quiet of night
and everyone’s asleep...
so be quiet....zzzzzzzzzzz...


rrrr....rrrrr.....rrrrrr...
that’s he-body snoring
rrrr...rrrr....rrrr...rrrrrrrr...
yes, he snores like a saw


ttttttttttt! yes, she-body kicks

bp!bp!bp!bp!
he-body ***** his thumb


zap!
a noise travels
from lung to gut
hmmmm....hmmmmmm....hmmmm...
there is heavy-breathing
the nose is blocked


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zzzzz.....zzzzz...shhh.....zzzzz.
shhh....be quiet!.....zzzzz....
it’s the quiet of night
and everyone’s alseep...
and bodies talk....listen


prrrrtttt!
yes, that’s he-body
everybody knows this rude sound
Plattt!
yes, that’s she-body
with an instinctive kick
Baam!
that’s he-body
as it hits the floor


rrrrrr......rrrrrr....rrrrrr.....rrrrrr....
prrrrrrrrrrr­rrrrtttttt!

that’s he-body again, I’m afraid,
blissfully unaware
and asleep like a baby on the floor


Hmmmmm.....
that’s she-body dreaming of Prince Charming
who never showed up


zzzzz.....zzzzz...shhh.....zzzzz.
shhh....be quiet!.....zzzzz....
it’s the quiet of night
and everyone’s asleep...
so be quiet....zzzzzzzzzzz...
James Floss Mar 2018
Once Draculina
Wild child
Paws sin laws

Then bathroom baby with
AM routine set
Man cub stumbles

Puts her water on
Drip it spigot love
Works for her

Baby proves my theorem of
"Love, love, love…”
As we dance our kitty tango

I asked her to relax
She asked me to deliver
The middle is special.

Rrrrrr-rrrrrr-rrrrrr…

Rrrrrr-rrrrrr-rrrrrr…
sheeba balan kpp Jan 2015
Eucalyptus filled air
Sheets of warm and cold air
Early tasmac drinkers
Weary eyed dads
Bye bye -ing mommies
Dung splattering cows
whipped pedigree dogs
Scared insects
Proud birds
Flowers with an attitude
The pig
A hero
Swarmed stinking
Dirtiest of them all
And a early morning feast
Charming brown eyed street dogs
Question marked trees
Washed pavements
Drooling men
Betel chewing glaring women
Girls in floral blouses sweeping
Sh -sh -sh -sh -sh
Autos rrrrrr
Shock absorbing nike shoes krr krr krrr krr
A cigarette ****
A sad memory
Pushed aside
By the brush of a hand
pushed to a remote corner
Hidden
another memory
a recent one
with a scaredy cat
Which i want to share and party with
Was vivid

Ornamented ladies
lighting lamps to a dead god
Guarded by vain priests
Obesience
and giving life
for people
Lost in hope and fear
A parallel existence

Corporates blaring into phones
Fit men playing tennis
Small sturdy grass
Petite flowers
Swaying and dancing
Everlasting
Everlasting ?
Is it a will or maybe or a should be ?
early morning walks in new upcoming areas like hsr and marathahalli which were until recently villages and are now turning into small IT towns
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Raj Arumugam Apr 2014
So this New Boy just graduated
from The Top University and Full Honors
and all that jazz and the Right Degrees
(none of the arts and philosophy and poetry
and all that crap)
walks into Supreme Office
for his interview
and the HR and PR and Admin and the CEO
and the SR and the RR and DDR and the RRRR
(don’t ask me what they are – they just are  rrrrrr)
and so the CEO asks our Golden Child Prodigy:
“You got all the top degrees and qualifications
You’re the brightest mind just out of University –
what’d do you expect for pay here at Supreme Office
if you make it to a chair and table?”


“A pay that will put $100K in my pocket
to take home the first year, and it will be more
each passing year”


“What about,” says the CEO, with that cold smile
that matches the Golden Boy’s enamel smile
“if I said we offer you above that
and a month’s paid leave, a secretary
and a room all to yourself and chauffer-driven car
even in the weekends
and all medical, insurance
dental and tropical vacations all paid for?
What’d do you say?”


“You’re kidding, right?” says Bright Kid Business Mozart
with that rising-star lean and sneer


“Of course I am,” says the CEO
*“But don’t blame me for the joke – you started it…”
...based on an existing online joke, and in real life...
Mateuš Conrad Oct 2016
well..
                                                  with the English
being so: oh so
                        ******* welcoming
i'd rather be remembered
                                              as a full-throttle
                      wanking rather than
a raving-ape's worth
of ᛈ ᛁ < ᛏ ᛋ (kap c! kap c!
                Cierkiev uno bud!
i uno buda!
                                                        Rrrrrr'am!
                serpentine's clue)
   Chernobyl charcoal,
or as some like to keep the
entertainment checks:
             a loss...
the famous Krakow smog...
                          leftover chimneys
to blame...
                            i don't
need a paddy to teach me how to
behave among the Anglo...
                             the Anglo who
lost his way among Germans and the Norse...
                 when the Russian Empire fell...
because one cousin said to another cousin
cussing: to hell with you!
                                    i don't need
a paddy for that...
   the paddy can play chequers and
river-dance till the nymphs come home...
sure, the paddy can do that...
           on arable land the paddy can what
the paddy must... mustard tatties...
             believably edible...
                                you know,
every man has his limits...
             my limit was agitated,
the paddy ate k.f.c.,
          and i too said to him:
               well, it's a two way street...
               you empathise with me
i'll empathise with you...
      you don't empathise with me
                     i'll see you in the sewer
and call it: the rats' livelihood worth of nibbling
     a narrative of the black death
worth a Madam Tussaud's examination
for worth of anaesthetic... torturing wax...
                  of all the islander tribes,
the Welsh are docile, the Scots
are: who invented copper wire?
to Scotsmen arguing and pulling a copper
two pence coin apart,
                      North Irish is Yates -
    "south" or republican is
              Joyce in Paris... Dublin
        and the thought of dungarees...
                      why the **** did i ever become
    involved with these cousins conjuring
        fake birth certificates?! why?!
i don't belong here... my motto still stands:
          among the Faroe Islanders
and the Orca slaughter for the red sea!
              the English were humbled in Germany
and never to be seen in Sweden...
     with Germanic roots...
the English are an embarrassment in
Scandinavia...
                        better sun-tanned propped
in Iberia...
                            or the call:
Hindenburg! Hindenburg! Blitz! Blitz!
  drink till you fiddle with your ****!
               up d'er balcony and
         somersault like a whale in a belly-flop
pose into the swimming pool! ploooooop!
belly splash and the beetroot suntan pinch
                      of cancer (zodiac alias of crab);
forever brother v. brother,
               as ever... a civil war...
               i actually celebrate the
unwelcoming nature of the English...
                    because i know they're
what the Turks say of Saxons: pseudo...
           the English can be English in Iberia
and what the Greeks say to be:
a reason to think...
                                  but if ever they were
found in Scandinavia
                                 they'd be frowned at...
mind you the Americans are worse...
                      they deem it necessary
                    to talk of conquest to invoke jealousy -
               i'm as jealous as you are
readied to rear these *******...
                                     but since you're not...
i don't know why i need to know what
                      cubicle *** is like...
                                     i don't see the point...
          my narrative is complimentary
   to what most people shouldn't say
                          but feel obliged to do...
but since they talk about it... i'm writing an answer
to what they're supposedly not supposed to do...
         otherwise, why talk about it?
my ex-girlfriend's favourite motto? good for you!,
well, it's exactly the same...
            why do it, then speak of it,
why not just do it and keep it shut?
                               unless you're looking
for a confession booth and a priest...
i wouldn't be looking for a madman
                and jealousy... to be honest:
what could become: 20 hail Mary's penance,
could easily become 20 stab wounds to the throat;
                              just saying.
Mohd Arshad Sep 2017
Killing of humans
Due to race and religion
Is the best way to call natural disaster
Keith W Fletcher Nov 2020
If it is - as they say
then GOD slammed
a couple of doors - in my face
yesterday
It wasn't like I had not seen
that long haulway
set out before me
door after door...
...wide open - just as far
As I could see

So...maybe...just maybe
I was or chose to be
unaware...as they
began to slowly close

As I sailed along oblivious
to what was - not...
..to what I miss
and then...BLAM
so quick the second
that I never heard it slam
what with my momentum
roaring at full hum

I knew right then
that my...
just now ex-friend
had created a wound
believed to be one
that would never mend
which was...
at that juncture
very much right

Right....no!NO! wrong!
Right then
was that time to stop and think
About the depths
I was or was not
willing
to allow myself to sink!


" You Know," I said " Its Been In
Your Head...from the moment!"

That moment - months ago
when that bridge was crossed
Set ablaze - burned to a crisp
no way back
across the divide
me
on one side
looking back
Across that void
regretfully seeing
the uttered...not muttered
words that I had heard
and wishing right then
that that moment
had never occurred!

As two white men we be
talking about BLM
as suddenly one would decide,
to deride , not implied
but simply replied
"But it's not the right time!!!"

I sat there agape
repulsed...
as if hearing
fingernails scrape
across a chunk of slate
married to an indigenous
blessed with beautiful indigenous offspring
who carried that native appeal
grandchildren as well- wait....WAIT!!

I wanted to scream "Are you MAD- RRRrrr Uuuuuu InSANE?

With motors overheating
I loosed that string
let that hot-air balloon
rise up and steadily drift away
carrying off a friendship ( of sorts )
a favor in the act
where wise men stop
to think..instead of react!

into the wind I watched it sail
as I stepped gracefully
back from the rail
Stopping dead in my tracks

So...was I surprised
as I watched...
... those doors
SlaMMing shut
so abruptly
amid today's nevermores?
YES! ...sort of
I guess you might say
but I pulled up my anchor
set sail on calm waters
Jettisoning my rancor
starting with reasoning
seasoning
tamping down any hot embers
"Small fish of'n ave big tales!"
I read on a strangers porch
just today along my travails
My mind...
..suddenly remembers!

At first just a smallest of smiles
existed on my unwilling face
Before the laughter erupted
washing away all of it away...
...without leaving a trace!

   $mall price to be paying
that bridge so selfishly ignored
which turns out - as you knew
t'was not a payment...you willingly could afford!!

Then that breeze
blew over me..
...refreshingly cool/
replenishing me
more than I believed
was my right to be hopin'

A bestgone friend
a few hundred lost
so much was gained
than was to be lost
when all those windows did suddenly open!

That is today's truth...
...my reality lesson.

peace!!
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Mateuš Conrad Oct 2018
why do i wear sunglasses in the night?
the night is not dark enough...
i implore the night to forgive me,
the ownership of a shadow...

now... that's the romance...
but how did the modern epidemic of
insomnia grip the world?
how?!

           neon? neon pulverization?
no?
               listening to the *******
radio kept the domino hovering
over what became the subsequent
cascade?
yes?!

                to shield my ******* eyes!
i grunt a voice
from the bowels...
but you will not hear it...
so i let my voice be eaten by
the bowel, and let the grunting
come,and overcome
what was once a voice...

to your god, and his son...
may your  hope reside with...
i am taking
the"chanced" spectacle of...
until a third
Pontius Pilate bid us part...

with yours serving out..
a hell on earth, for a heaven without
either hell or earth...
or mine....
   a heaven on earth...
          for a hell without
either heaven or earth...

but that's ot enough...
it would take a french bun...
some mayo,
    a tuna tinned...
and some sweetcorn tin...

i hate the sound of my voice
while i drink,
given me the reason / impetus
to write...
as i've notcied...
those who perform their
poetry?
        i like them...olivia gatwood...
to name one, and all,
but the few...
i can't read this *******...
if i read this *******,
i wouldn't be writing more
of this *******...
if i speak these words...
it's like a quote from
Gladiator from a fictional

Marcus Aurelius...

/ there was a dream that was Rome.
you could only whisper it.
anything more than a whisper
and it would vanish, it was so fragile. /

now you only replace
that word Rrrrrr.... with Eu....
nothing more...

i had not feigned to dream of Europe,
i came to the altar of Augustus,
and came across the Helen
that became Cleopatra...

   but...                 but...
        my people do not share the inherited
history of this tongue...
   the Germanic tribes weren't conquered,
perhaps... the Scythia...
but beside that association?

it's one thing asking for integration,
learning a language...
but when a learned language...
decides to have a mind of its own?
and doesn't obey your cultural
constraints? what then?
you will ******-like dictate your
pseudo-PM citizen-agenda
you **** staatssicherheitsdienstbrigade?!
so language not enough?
i need to encompass a post-colonial
identity politico?!
mate... you have a ***** lose or
what?! you jerking off a *******
elephant while getting a hand-job
from a ******* octopus?!
but i'm pretty sure you've employed
a cohort of N. Irish to mind
the whole integration, "game"...
you employed Paddy power to mind
new, European integrate ******
successors of "parasites"...
i know a paddy when i drink a paddy's
drink...
no... you're not getting past
this *******... i'm not Paddy...
but i'd side with a Pict...
i want Brussels to exercise the fullest
extent of their behavior in
the ******* Congo...
        
no... at this point...
do i ******* care what i look like?
but Paddy gotta do what
a Paddy would: technically not do...
pry open an oyster and pretend
to poodle...
but i guess Paddy does, what
a ****** should do...
oh wait... Newcastle...
that sort of "English" is off-limits..
if it was ever "on"-limits...

     but then again... why expect
more, or less...
the Saudi Arabians are bombing Yemen...

   the Mexicans are discriminating
against the Honduras people...

                 the Japanese hate every ching or
chang that do not participate in
ski-jumping events...

why should i even justify a rationality
of a continental / shared continental roulette
game of shared values being celebrated...
**** it...

                the Japanese don't really like
the other asians...
     the English are more at home
in having to import a post-colonialism
nationhood than feel at home with
their European brotherhood...
  but... oh... look!
you really thought America or Australia
would give a ****?!
you shtoopid or shumshing?!

yeah... and by the looks of it...
a dumb ****** as i...
would be most at home, in a place called
Mali... sub-saharan Africa...
who would have thought, eh?!
Mateuš Conrad Feb 2018
a cat stole my chair, that lower-hunchback
type to position myself into,
   imitating far beyond the pecking crow...
each and every bird: pecking as if
to insinuate: there's a puzzle behind all of this...
mystery? hardly a mystery to go
along with a puzzle...
           yet there's still a cat in my writing
chair...
             as there's the ghost of Freddie Mercury
pulling the puppet strings
                 of the lead singer of the Svee-dish
band ghost...
                           freddie ******* mercury!
yep, that's him...
              i live in times when a band
          like queen would be called: queer;
    query...
                   how far is it to the Y junction
via i.e., i, why, aye and the occasional
   balancing act on sigma and phi?
- and yes, if i could write a cohesive body of
language, that didn't end up being
all spaghetti muddles and fiddles and
chop-sticks...
                       i'd be a journalist by now:
ditto ditto ditto...
                      or as the french say:
   joo-rrrrrr-nalist...
             ****... the chinese call it jue,
yes i.e. that ritual bronze
                            a tripod: minus the african
12" and necessary buttocks
                    to cushion it, as the saying goes:
more cushion for the pushin' -
          and her smacked right into
a coalmine of coccyx on ol' whitey...
     i'm starting to think the asians didn't
build up a tolerance for drinking
because... all they ******* served was
warm wine!
            never served a sneeze...
sneeze? a shot of ***** with a sprinkle
of pepper...
             and what, you never tried to
play the sailor by attempting to get high
from eating excess nutmeg?
    ****, i live on an island, suggesting?
  no wonder this whole place is a tad wobbly...
           tad must be the scottish equivalent
of wee...
             i.e. a bit,
                not exactly small, but **** it:
i can follow up on what's being insinuated.
  if i could write a coherent sentence
by now i wouldn't have read Joyce,
   or Ezra Pound, looking into my own *******
looking at Heidegger...
         the cat curls up and grabs his head...
healthy people watch sports...
    only the sick *******
                     meddle with politics;
point being:
              the sort of politics currently
on offer are discouraging to even wish for
a vote...
                ah, to be 21 and healthy once more...
and to not have naive perspective
   on keeping certain friends...
       better an enemy that i know will hurt
me,
        than a friend who i will not suspect.

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