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Dharma

...des a finer example 
of a life without encumbrance—
Thoreau in his curtainless hut
with a single plate, a single spoon?
Gandhi with his staff and his holy diapers?

Off she goes into the material world
with nothing but her brown coat
and her modest blue collar,
following only her wet nose, 
the twin portals of her steady breathing,
followed only by the plume of her tail.

If only she did not shove the cat aside
every morning 
and eat all his food
what a model of self-containm...Read more of this...
by Collins, Billy


Part 10 of Trout Fishing in America

...th them many other trout fishing in Amer-

ica peace inducements, all following the Communist world

conquest line: the Gandhian nonviolence Trojan horse.

 When these young, hard-core brainwashed members of

the Communist conspiracy reached the "Panhandle, " the

emigre Oklahoma Communist sector of San Francisco, thou-

sands of other Communists were waiting for them. These

were Communists who couldn't walk very far. They barely

had enough strength to make it downtown.

 T...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard

Where Do You Come From?

...
 
They say he knelt on the battle field to stroke the Beloved’s shadow.
 
 
The waves were dark in Bombay harbor, Gandhi wrote in his Autobiography
 
Writing too is an experiment with truth.
 
No one knows my name in Arabic means port.
 
 
On board white people would not come near us
 
Were they scared our brown skin would sully them?
 
Mama tried to teach me English in a sing song voice.
 
 
So you can swim into your life she said.
 
Wee child, my langu...Read more of this...
by Alexander, Meena

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