Somebody offers to shine your shoes.
Somebody else offers to babysit the kids…
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: free verse, G. C. Waldrep, social commentary, unsettling
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Some men
do not eat alone
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: A.K. Ramanujam, altruism, Ilam Peruvaluti, philosophy, Puram Naanuru, social commentary, Tamil, translation