Buddha

happy birthday buddha
happy hunting, happy hiding, happy new year
i hope you get yourself together
i hope your absence is made clear
i first learned, their was a value
in a little subterfuge
from some old peeping tom
or another woman’s refuge
came in contact with a svengali
he was housebound and unwell
choked on a whale bone in a cantonese restaurant
his nervous system
had broken down
9 singing buddhas