A Job Is a Job

Incognito I am a Zen master I am in the Enlightenment business Let’s become partners And enlighten others I am almost broke And cannot afford to sell Thai noodles In the night market The queues at the unemployment office Are long and require strong legs As a Zen master out of work I only get dirty looks From the other vendors Who never have heard Of the Enlightened stage of life When life as it is Is all you can bear There is nothing else to do Suffering is taking its toll But enlightenment requires a lot of patience These Zen masters always talk around the bush With their Zen koans And are bored to death With all the innocent bystanders Who came out of nowhere Staring at all the car crash victims Looking for new koans