Monday, 2 March 2020

Guru 3


The Guru is in the swimming pool.
‘Life is water,’ he says to the audience
(the Guru has an audience wherever he goes),
‘and the sea is ready-salted.’
I don’t know why we listen to this stuff.
Maybe it’s because
if we can’t get our spirituality from church
we’ll get it instead from a man in a swimming pool.
‘Life is the intricate set-up for a joke
and the punchline is Death Itself.
You and I, we are all variations
on the same joke.
Surely you have something to say about that,
poet man?’
I look up.

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