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Zen Opera
Оглавление1:
Everything will be the opposite
Of how I’ll say that it will be.
The more your mind is occupied
The more vacant your mind will be.
Listen to everything I say
Then forget it immediately.
For those who don’t recall the past
Live in the present endlessly.
2:
The people are beautiful,
Friendly and open.
The weather is warm so
They don’t leave their clothes on.
They like to be with you.
They don’t have to fake it.
You show them your money but
Still they won’t take it.
Nobody gets pregnant.
There are no diseases.
They do many things and
They make them seem easy.
You won’t find this place on
Your summer vacation.
You only can reach it through
Deep masturbation.
But if you could get to
This island or nation,
You might return home still
Holding your frustration.
3:
The husband craves variety.
The bachelor only craves release.
The hungry person dreams of bread.
The tired one wants only sleep.
The junkie craves a shot of smack.
The drunkard wants a pint of gin.
The rich person complains that life
Has nothing left to offer him.
Though we may get the things we want
The getting makes us want more things.
The boy is taught to crave a girl.
The girl is taught to crave a ring.
We stare into the box of greed.
The box of greed increases need.
The waitress wants an office job.
The hippie wants to smoke some weed.
Some people only crave to cease.
But still they do not cease to crave.
The baby wants its mother’s breast.
The sick old man desires the grave.
The mystic wants to look at God.
The Marxist wants a worker’s state.
The traveler wants a foreign land.
The refugee desires one place.
5:
A life spent contemplating death
Is a life that is lived richly.
The tree so strong and bountiful
Draws life out of the earth’s decay.
In charnel grounds we sit and wait.
The sky-clad dancing Dakini.
Your craving for and fear of us
Give energy to set you free.
