Vignette / Lightness

There was dainty mirth;
that Eliot would have found
in a nonchalant street musician in Venice.


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Restless feet,
ready to fly for a cigarette;


Man by the dinner table on one-
not making the piano request.


the hunched poet on another-
by the stream in the city.

Large liquid eyes-
pained by the rulebook of the world.

Here's what concern says to you:
"Free yourself, young man.
You need to be so much more
than you see or have to be."

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 In the restaurant by the sea,
 there was no malady.

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Letter your doubts
and make paper boats of them during the rains.

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Neengadha thendral,
paadadho un idazh?

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Melisaiyil urangavum,
kadal karai-il kanaa kaanavum,
chandiranai purindhukollavum,
ni vendaamo?

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