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Poetry by A.
J.
Rao
Poetry by A.
J.
Rao
Silences
I hear two old men on the park bench
Speaking softly to each other s silence.
The man s son makes software and money;
His keystrokes break nightly silence
In distant America where dollars...
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1.
Poetry by A.
J.
Rao
Poetry by A.
J.
Rao
Silences
I hear two old men on the park bench
Speaking softly to each other s silence.
The man s son makes software and money;
His keystrokes break nightly silence
In distant America where dollars rain.
The other man s son lives in this city.
His kids school is on the other side.
I write my own lyrics and you?
I compose mine on the bathroom walls
And some times, sing, in dulcet tunes,
An exquisite duet with the night cricket.
I love this real solo hum that comes
From the vacant holes of my insides.
I hear it in the silence between my ears.
It sounds like the ocean wind that whispers
In the needle- hairs of the tall casuarinas
On the Bhimili beach on some dark nights.
Dream
When I live in the night I forget night
On the rim of the night I stand apart.
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