the post-modern buddhist blues

buddhism is cool now
so let's look at this like buddhists do
the new kind, anyway

we'll plan to stop planning
because being in the now
is the same as being in

we'll be the post-modern kind of buddhists
the sort that love for free and often

the kind that lure you in
but do not lock the door
even as you're begging for a bolt

we'll look at this like buddhists do
worshipping the swift affair
until it ends
and end it surely will
because we planned it all along

maybe we'll meet sometimes at night
but if we do, it's only chance

and at 9 p.m. last wednesday
clearly, no, you did not recall
that I'd be waltzing down the hall
when you found yourself idling
where you did not have to be at all

of course, you could not, did not know
where i'd be or where i'll go
these run ins are pure luck
but since we've met again:
when will you be free to fuck?

we'll write it in the moleskin just in case
in pencil, since that's what buddhists do
the williamsburg sort, that is

how does june 16th sound?