Poem--10-13-2014
Elongated Ear of the Buddha by Kyi May Kaung.
(Composite or fictional characters)
Elongated ear of the Buddha/all hearing and omnipotent
but it isn't really that kind of religion.
I don't teach Economics now
just the Dharma
that's good.
After all a hobby farm
how much can we earn
selling farm produce
asparagus?
What's that?
Basil?
Maybe scale down I do not know
orchids?
Herbs?
Small hot house things more specialized and expensive and more difficult to grow labor intensive
"Oh Mother, don't buy anything,
don't go crazy in there--
after all, you can't really dig."
Dig it?
The former diplomat is still saying
he/she coined the term Saffron Revolution, in 2007.
Hard to think it is so relatively recent.
The monks walking the rain chanting the Metta Sutra
Japanese journalist Kenji Nagaii dying on the street shot point blank--
While I was in Philadelphia 20 years ago, writing Black Rice when I thought it was part of Once, then called
I Weep for You my Native Land
my classmates debated
the exact meaning of the term Point Blank--Kenji his death, no fuss made why Japanese gov took lying down
poor Kenji his chest cut open
poor autopsy technique
all swollen
not slim as in death
seen 2 like that
crudely stitched together
Other man killed by steel catapult balls--
his head shaved most likely in death--
as crudely stitched together
autopsy is not brain surgery
JFK's brain allegedly disappeared
in Bethesda, MD.
This is called Abuse of Corpse--actor FFS Free Funeral Society banned from acting since 07 went to see Arlington National Cemetery
My character Fleur washing and washing her hands
making only the female corpses beautiful
hot water bottles bringing back the bloom to their
cheeks.
Oh Ma Ma Elder Sister--I was so lucky
as soon as I left Mummy said
they came for me
10 cars and 3 tanks
in the yat kwet looking
for Daw Zin Zar Maung (made up name)
--Oh Ma Ma ma ma--
think about it, board meeting in Bali
if they came for me with 40 soldiers
JUST one beer magnate
how many would they come.
To arrest some one like him?
And then in Singapore
you know they sent a letter bomb?
What did you do?
The head of Singapore Intelligence at our board meeting regular nice guy looking saying he's a poet like me
and he saw me in the swimming pool.
Not sitting in the back
I don't like to squish the ladies
I called Security, and they said fill the sink and soak the suspected letter bomb in water so I did
Beer Magnate beer magnate not so hunky dory lost my play ms Shaman/only posted to her as she said she would produce a play
never sent it back in SASE.
I hate people who are cavalier with other people's
intellectual
property.
Threw her used tissues after blowing her nose
right in the Ubud farmers' irrigation canal.
I observed, in 3 days, the water flowed 2 ways.
Copyright KMKaung
10-13-2014
Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala--I have a volume of her short stories--which I like a great deal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Prawer_Jhabvala
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