The House on Luz Avenue

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The everyday sights of a Chennai street can tell you stories - if you have the eye for them.

Three dogs lie
tightly curled
like commas
misplaced,
outside the crumbling
Mylapore mansion,
a palimpsest
of silk and diamonds,
khadi and music—Thanjavur style,
liberal arts tinged with classicism
always balanced
by a pragmatic engineering degree
in every other
uncomplaining generation;



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