Mitigating Matter

The pain of conditioned existence,

which Buddhists say, for a regular

person is like an eyelash on the 

palm of your hand, to a Buddhist,

is like an eyelash in your eye…

mitigated by matter 
that changes

the chemicals in our brains
mitigating our matter.

We mitigate our lives the best 

we can, the slings and arrows,

as long as we can stand. 

A little helper doesn’t hurt…

I can’t see anything wrong with that.

What’s wrong with tweeting the 

equipment, open tuning the 

instrument, tuning the fork? 

After all, as Wallace Stevens wrote:

“The eccentric is the basis of design.”

No: “I can’t tonight, Darling, 

I have a headache.”

No!

There should be more...there isn’t.

(Instead of taking a leap there,
I thought I'd skip it).