wrastled the power from
incremental hobo forms
waited in the bus station
for a snow globe patron
found the ashes of a dream
inside a box forgotten in
the dead faces of Market Street
replaced food with mdma and hunk
never survived but gladly accepted
the kindness of strangers eating shit
eating shit that never leaves
TOILET WALKER RUNS HOME
with amputated unemployment
and thrashing diesel whales of Death
fully embossed in the carrion tones
Saigon sewer home to the bacterium
somewhere around Barstow
where it’s easy to forget
we’re not like the others
manta ray scoundrels
living life to the fullest
unlike you and me
just ended up there
total accident
foul foul fouled an empty coin
they don’t know it
that’s where envy lives
consciousness IS the illusion
Mahàkappina hobo arsonist bounce
a Lesbian haystack cut-up
murderous gun club of mutant fools
poverty ain’t blessed
at the gnarled spunk buffet a paw
double claw total loss
elastic and leather turnstile pain boss
fresh meat easy on the fist
acrobat fetus
much needed
reset canine bed rest
inverted lust is not Buddhism
dirty Hip world
in Greece i demonstrate Moscow
coiled slit-eye distortion
anything but “cool” when the
igneous suicide enters full splode
Devadatta went to King Ajātasattu and asked him to despatch men who would kill the Buddha. The King sent the assassins to Devadatta telling them to follow the instructions of his teacher.
Devadatta told the first man: “Man, you go to the place where the Monk Gotama is now living. You kill Gotama and come back by this way.”
Then he told a couple of men to kill the first man and come back by another way.
Then the third batch of four men was instructed to kill the two men (of the second batch) and return by another way.
The fourth batch of eight men was instructed to kill the four men (of the third batch) and come back by another way.
Then still another sixteen men (as the fifth batch) were told to kill the eight men (of the fourth batch) and return by another way.
Assassins attained Sotāpatti
Armed with a sword and a shield and a bow and a quiver of arrows, the first man went to the Buddha and stood with his rigid body near Him, trembling with fear and agitation.Seeing him, the Buddha said: “Man, come here. Have no fear.” Then the man got over his fear and put his sword and shield as well as his bow and arrows in a suitable place. Then having approached the Buddha, he bowed his head at the feet of the Buddha and confessed and apologized for his offence. The Buddha forgave him and gave the series of talks on generosity, morality and other good deeds that lead to the attainment of the Path and Fruition. As a result the assassin became a sotāpanna-ariya and at the same time sought supramundane refuge in the Triple Gem.
Then the Buddha dismissed the assassin telling him not to go by the way instructed by Devadatta but to go by another way.
The two assassins (of the second batch) waited for the first assassin for a long time. Then going in the opposite direction they saw the Buddha seated at the foot of a tree. They went near the Buddha, paid respect and sat at a proper place. The Buddha gave them the series of Dhamma talks and, explained the four Truths and established them in the Fruition of the Sotāpatti. Like the first assassin, they too became sotāpanna-ariyas and sought supramundane refuge in the Triple Gem.
Again, the Buddha dismissed these assassins, telling them to go by another way.
Then the four assassins (of the third batch)….
Then the eight assassins (of the fourth batch)….
The sixteen assassins (of the fifth batch) waited for the eight assassins for a long time and going in the opposite direction, they saw the Buddha as did those who went before them. They paid respect to the Buddha and sat at a proper place. The Buddha gave them the Dhamma talks on the Four Truths and established them in the Fruition of Sotāpatti. After they had sought supramundane refuge in the Triple Gem, the Buddha dismissed the men, telling them to go by another way.
Then the first assassin approached Devadatta and said: “Sir, I cannot kill the Exalted Buddha. He is so very powerful.” Devadatta said: “Enough men, do not kill the Monk Gotama. I will kill him by myself.”
the pig
on all fronts
Salton Sea sonic booms
apes doubled over
with Shigella
confiscating the arsonist’s viola
THE GREAT MAGNET
a holistic prison machine
constructed with
sputum chandeliers
a tent city
for the curvy girls too high for
Safeway
name tag smudged
and they call us SWURVUZ
6 robes
and a kind of Orange ╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠╠
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“May all the beauty of the world is linked tight to you.”