Elegance
It is not easy
to stop thinking ill of others.
Usually one must enter into a
friendship with a person who has
accomplished this great feat
Himself.
Then something might start to
rub off on you
Of that
True Elegance
Dropping Keys
The small man
builds cages for everyone he knows.
While the Sage,
who has to duck his head when the
moon is low,
Keeps dropping keys
all night long
for the beautiful rowdy prisoners.
If You Don’t Stop That
I used to live in a cramped house
with confusion and pain.
But then I met the Great Friend
and started getting happy and
started singing.
Confusion and Pain started acting
nasty, making threats, with talk like
this, “If you don‟t stop ‘that'”- all
that fun-we’re leaving”
