Dogma dogs me for days on end
while I sort the crepuscular
fragments of belief.
Jesus is healing the sick,
leaving the merely disaffected
and neurotic to heal
themselves of minor ailments.
Rumi is dancing
and that's what he says
when he is not singing.
The dance is not by chance.
Buddha says it's all an illusion
Any Way. Lao-tze says this is
The Way. The World Ends.
Not with a lightbulb-
But how many it takes
to screw it in.
copyright 2004
D.J.
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