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A. Thiagarajan
A postgraduate in English, A. Thiagarajan taught in colleges and now works for a bank.
He has been writing in English and Tamil. His work (poems, haiku, short-stories and articles)
has appeared in magazines such as Subtle Tea, Poetic Diversity, A Little Poetry, Poetry Canada, Ygdrasil,
Lililitreview, Tinywords, The Heron's Nest, Haiku Harvest, Cloudspeak,
Velvetillusion, Mainichi and others. He lives in Mumbai, India, with his wife Rama.
Always Another
it was always another -
mostly a he
sometimes a she -
all it took was
mostly some nice words
sometimes a little love -
all needed was
mostly a longing
sometimes a little sex -
though it could change
at seasons and weather
and because of the you in me
or vice versa -
it doesn't take long
to realise this
if you stop to see -
in the balance of this length
if you are not with me
I was with you -
but then,
it was so even when I stopped -
it was always
you and me
and
what goes on
between us.
Ex- expression
The guy I haven't seen or known
torments me day in and dayout -
torments you can easily imagine
if you know what it is -
and you know what it is ...
and one day in great
and good earnestness
I shouted from the terrace
in a weather as bad
as he was a tormentor -
show yourself up
I can't take it any more
and I am wasting
show your bloody face
and what it is
why it means what it does
and let me see
and let me see ...
so,
there he was
really on a sixteen wheeled coach
and a long vestibule type box
with around five openings
three on one side
on the right -
he just got down
walked up to me
before I could tell you
any more
just took my sap away
and with it
my expression
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