o in the big market of universe
I didn't find any salesman,
I didn't find any wholesaler,
I didn't find any company / agent
who sells and makes the happiness- peace
if there is anyone
I'm the first buyer
but no one still I found
no one still informed me about this
o I'm not disappointed seeking this
I’m not distressed hunting for this
but I came back to me
and I come back again and again
I seek myself; I find out myself
out to inwardly
there I find the happiness-peace
which lives in my self-satisfied mind
which lives in my demandless self-bliss
-December 31, 2019 CTG, BD
Liz Taylor
never married
a sailor, retailer
or a wholesaler
or divorced a bailor
or buried a tailor
or used an inhaler
or lived in a trailer
or dated Norman Mailer
or kissed a whale or
even was jailed her
whole life as a derailer
Where is the great engine of life?
How many mechanics does it take
to keep it running smooth as a baby's bottom?
All those wheels and sockets and spindles ---
must need great care;
The scientists say that if it ever broke down ---
it wouldn't matter!
Its merely made of parts ---
ordered from some non-existent wholesaler ---
the great garage of cells and atoms (now dark matter)
Even the most callous child knows
that great engines do not merely happen,
but are created by great minds...
It seems we must put some of these 'great scientific minds'
into a new category of stupid:
(they would make terrible mechanics)
(A la Carl Sandburg, whom I admire deeply)
There I was reaching thirty
just been widowed year before
now the work place was to close
redundancy now at my door
But friend told me of a vacancy
at local wholesalers for food buyer
so few months before work closing
went for interview before got fire
So got the job at wholesaler
made redundant on the Friday
start Monday as a buyer
in continued employment I did stay
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