[UnbornBuddha]

The contemporary epoch

On the surface it’s beautiful,
Kyoto orchids in bloom, behold.
The material surplus is irrefutable.
Endorphins as pharmaceuticals
Diacetylmorphine leaves me immovable
I’m nervous in my own funeral.
Smog toxins in my lungs, using purgatives and albuterol.
Having to put into a coffin my own son.
Carving freedom’s doctrine on my tongue
So never to forget the noxious gas chambers.
Zyklon B vapors, agnostic by nature.
A porcelain soul dropped and shattered
Descartes making thoughts to matter.
Antibiotics marking the scientific age.
Darwin’s nonspecific race, with insipid traits
Argued to have bestowed the DNA we inherit today.
Empiric faith as Homo sapiens become the futuristic apes.
Yet, no one could explain a cell’s liquid space.
Abiogenesis says life derived from a cryogenic state.

On the surface its beautiful,
Relaxed, with a suit and tie working in cubicles.
Labor laws not in effect, a child, the stone mason
Growing up to know the depression of his own nation.
Groveling street orphans, infants suckling on air
Wall street muggers hustling for heirs.
Einstein indubitably disproving Newtonian physics
Relativity explained through motion and distance.
Oppenheimer’s emotional distance, explosive existence
Plutonium shipments, cancerous omen remission.
Nietzsche’s absurdity on the notions of spirit
Derived from Plotinus metaphysics.
Swallowing anxiolytics to reach the echoes of sleep
Polio vaccine, but no cure for the Leper’s disease.


There’s a troll under the bridge
No one wants to look at. Comfort and bliss.
Cherry soda shop, two rosy lip lovers kiss.
Alas, we suffer because we discovered it
Mental disorders abound, 1950 asylums.
Al Capone American-Sicilian violence
Top crime lord, subdued by the syphilis virus.
Rockefeller’s behemoth avarice. Fiends so ravenous
Their heart is gangrenous. Beings who feast on basilisks
Greed akin to a serpent’s malnutrition. Gandhi's mercy exhibitions.
Sexual revolution releasing dormant inhibitions. Early television.
Che Guevara’s nonconformist inquisition. Endorsing ammunition.
MK Ultra’s distorted apparitions. Disturbing avolition.
The pain lady liberty has seen.
History repeats because the mystery we seek is in the misery we reap,
Consider it at least.