It's very freeing
to do a morning dance
for the Buddhas
and Bodhisattvas
while wearing
a little black dress.

The word
from the media
is to live big
but I think
I like living small
without the worry
about success
and fame
and without
the trouble
that money brings.

I will be doing
two new paintings
so in order
to prepare
I put my green bags
(which are red and blue)
into the car
and drove to the store
which sells a lot
most of which
is from China
and I know
that is not good
for our carbon footprint
but I like China
so I bought
two Chinese frames
and on the way home
I picked up two more
green bags
(which this time are green)
so I have been helping
the troubled economy
with my little
shopping deal.

A giant red cat
is stuffed inside
someone's garage,
and the great beast's tail
is wagging outside.
The little girl
says that she forgot
how large the cat was.
This was the television reality
awhile ago.

There is only one enormous entrance
to this life of eternity and infinity
and this one door is always open
so I enter it with my eyes and mind
and I see that it is just good old ordinary everything
that I have been looking at
all life long.

Jumping into the gorge
with a weird bird overhead
the word pop is written in the sky
as the black fairy princess bows.

Like us
the doctors
don't know
what they're doing
as they see us
for five minutes
and determine
how our health is
according to a norm
which is thought
to be good
for everybody.