I Gave My Whole Life To The United States

Grandiose, maybe, but I’m a Buddhist,

so, I had to give it away and I happened

to be in America, so that’s what happened.

Arnold Toynbee said that the coming of

Buddhism to the West was the most rad

event of the Twentieth Century, he said 

it, not me, but I was part of that if anything,

and now meditation is more of a thing, not

some strange other culture’s hoagie pokie,

even scientists are taking it seriously.

So, there’s that.

I like the tombstone inscription Kurt Vonnegut 

wrote in one of his novels:

“(Name here)

He tried”