Please    

The Buddha.
The Buddha.
Please don’t say it again.
I hear him around me.
I see him in a taxi.
I eat him with rice.
He is the rising steam that warms my face.




Biography: William Reyland is a religious philosophy researcher and the author of Sons of Isan. His published work includes cultural observations, human interest articles and Buddhist research related to the environment. He lives in Bangkok, Thailand.

"Please" was previously published in The Buddhist Poetry Review Number 3, 2011.