Monday, October 24, 2011

My Secret During a Poetry Reading in October

Forgive me, but your laugh is so loud
that I laugh less: a tactical counterpoint
to balance the space.
I try to dispell

resentments I may incur towards you
whenever your innocent gaffaws engender
the curtailment of my own amused yawp--

So I focus instead on the Buddha's
doctrine of negative action....
and choose to recall

how, after all, "the laughing Buddha,"
is too, a statue.

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