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Nirmalee Apr 2013
A River
In Madurai,
city of temples and poets,
who sang of cities and temples,
every summer
a river dries to a trickle
in the sand,
baring the sand ribs,
straw and women’s hair
clogging the watergates
at the rusty bars
under the bridges with patches
of repair all over them
the wet stones glistening like sleepy
crocodiles, the dry ones
shaven water-buffaloes lounging in the sun
The poets only sang of the floods.

He was there for a day
when they had the floods.
People everywhere talked
of the inches rising,
of the precise number of cobbled steps
run over by the water, rising
on the bathing places,
and the way it carried off three village houses,
one pregnant woman
and a couple of cows
named Gopi and Brinda as usual.

The new poets still quoted
the old poets, but no one spoke
in verse
of the pregnant woman
drowned, with perhaps twins in her,
kicking at blank walls
even before birth.

He said:
the river has water enough
to be poetic
about only once a year
and then
it carries away
in the first half-hour
three village houses,
a couple of cows
named Gopi and Brinda
and one pregnant woman
expecting identical twins
with no moles on their bodies,
with different coloured diapers
to tell them apart.
                                                          ­                                                                 ­          ~A.K.Ramanujan
The city of Madurai stands on the bank of river Vaikai. In this poem,the poet points out the implicit reality of the river  and the devastation it brings about in monsoon, unlike other poets who mostly focus on the beauty of a river . This is one of my favorite poems. So thought of sharing it here at HP !
Dre G Feb 2013
what if
when we play the tape recorded
song of rival birds in the wild,
the male of the forest
gets ready to defend his
territory, digging claws
into branch, arching beak
into moist summer morning

in the same exact way
we as human animals
open the watergates of our
veins, in response to
the tape recorded clouds,
crashing ocean waves, and falling
oak leaves which the creatures
from andromeda have
elegantly placed along the
freshly wiped laboratory
shelves of planet earth.
kevin Apr 10
and watergates **** people......

pulitzers require a 75$ llc of attorney to keep corruption in play
and the pulitzer business above water

this facilitates companies like eli lily and pharma
and any patterned past corruption of civil rights
being alive does not cost money.  slavery is real
kevin Jul 3
Emma watson hopes

Structuralized Debt in Speech

A Gap minder poem

California arts council vs.
Supreme Court Opinion

A lifetime of low output guarantee accounting fraud

With a measurable karma
Karma is a feeler

In the arts council advertisement of progress where do the positions and funds end up?

In capitalism or effort of speech, new speech, democracy speech

That's a math study

Of?

Obstruction to municipal works
Public work
Public utility "shares"
Republican speech
Watergates
Housing standards and laws also called freedoms and civil rights
Homekey documents without the bondslavery notes in the ink

#kendalljenner #kendricklamar #jennahaze #barackobama #rbreich #aoc #elizabethwarren #nytimes #latimes #washingtonpost

When your not profitable
Messiah donations go back to Eden
LLC banking and trust bust freedoms
Economics is fun

Slum lords and the juris doctoring of rent and home owners associate tax

Watch out for the paint in the pork barrels
That's price fixing the democracy

Patterns?

Enter the publication portion of history and remove trouble
Reference journalism citation of ?

Geneva Convention

Center    place and that's it

Hall         same,  lobby,  limited

City           place and that's it

Now we invite the fortune of rock n roll to speak of our deflation...

Invisible Monsters author Chuck Pal a mony

Or Quentin tar and tiny legislation Tarantino

In either chair of speaker of the house
The service records and corruption violations will only accumulate
This is great journalism
Fire dept cost of speech
Vs.  Homeless loss of rights

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