Laughter

Old laughing high school buddies, Kevin and Jamie, on recent S.F. visit.

Laughter

7/26/09

Is life a big joke or what,

full of paradoxical events,

absurd, irrational chaos,

with so much to marvel

of it's ever changing fluidity

and inconceivable results,

that to pin it down

trying to make sense

is humorous in itself

yet humans expend energy

send attention toward conformity

while at the same time

are intent on independence

though intricately interwoven

whether alone, isolated, withdrawn,

there are innumerable instances

for smiling Buddha nature

to come out, view the world,

without our cloudy filters

only capable of seeing the mundane

as miracles abound like gymnasts,

leaping, twirling, tumbling clowns

getting chuckles for the antics

this wild life provides us,

yes, even dark periods are fodder

stoking ingenious improbable connections

which evokes laughter at ourselves.