Butterfly Split
Says Mr Butterfly
To Mrs Butterfly:
'I want a divorce;
let's split'
And says Mrs Butterfly:
'OK. You flit your way
and I flutter my way
You take
the North Bank in the garden
and I’ll have the South-East'
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Raj Arumugam Nonsense Verse 6: Clock And Painting
the clock chimed to
the painting on
the opposite side of the hall:
I just struck six am,
you idiot -
and you’re still at sunset!
and the sunset picture said:
you’ve been at six am
these twenty years,
baby;
someone ought to wind you up
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Nasrudin gets across
See, Nasrudin is standing
on the other side of the river
let’s ask him,
let’s ask
how we can get across
Hey, Nasrudin!
Tell us how we can get
to the other side of the river
But – replies Nasrudin –
you are already on the other side of the river!
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Chuang Tzu’s butterfly
Chuang Tzu has a dream
and when awake
he asks himself if, perhaps, this is the dream
is it Chuang Tzu who dreams of the butterfly
or is it the butterfly dreaming of Chuang Tzu?
not a poetic fancy
but probing into all our assumptions
and formations, and mind
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A Queensland Butterfly
butterfly is in an inapt name
for those in the state of Queensland
for the they’d melt in the very heat in summer
and so, really, since the butterfly’s wings open up like a book
I’d rather call it pagefly
or an e-readerfly
or flutterby or bye-bye or even by-the-by
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Man And Woman, Speaking And Listening
First and Second years
of marriage:
Man speaks; woman listens
Third and Fourth years
of marriage:
Woman speaks; Man listens
All Years of marriage after:
Man and Woman shout
and all the Neighbours listen
- Chapter S^6TF57.at.j./^g87y
Ancient Wisdom Text of Man and Woman
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Diogenes On Fate
Diogenes is walking past
the crowds and the stalls
in the market
the butcher has caught a man
stealing meat
'Oh, ' says the thief
'It's my fate to steal -
do not punish me! '
'Oh, ' says Diogenes,
'if it's your fate to steal
then it's your fate to be beaten! '
And Diogenes beats him
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A Movement Calls Poetry
a cry calls poetry;
a movement brings forth poetry;
an anguish, a pleasure
a response, a conditioning
bring forth poetry;
craving, disgust
forward movement, and recoil
a mental formation
a delight, an irritation call forth poetry:
and poetry becomes mere froth
on the coffee-cup of living
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Women Can't Drive
It’s NOT against the law
BUT women can’t drive –
DON’t ask why
Women must be driven
by husband
or adult male member in their family
or by male chauffer
or by male chauvinist
STOP! Woman driver protester
It’s not against the law
BUT police looking for you
Why?
Women can’t drive
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Winter Moon, Misty Moon
winter moon, misty moon
playful behind the trees
over the hidden Brisbane river
that makes the air thick with mist;
winter moon, full-moon
luminous and rolling
behind brooding giant trees;
winter moon, misty moon
that makes its area luminous and clean
and cares not if everything else is indistinct
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