At last I understand my problem. And after all these years. I have been
meditating incorrectly. I have been chanting Om to calm the vast ocean of
my mind. Only men who wish to leave the world of lust and lawn mowers
forever can say Om in peace. Om, I only just discovered, lacks the
sumptuous sounds and multi–syllabic soft centers appropriate for females of
my specific social class. A blonde, freckled woman from Suburban, Ohio must
never say Om. The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, his holiness himself, phoned me
from New Delhi to express his sincerest concerns for my health. Om, he
sighed, can never be kept awash with light. In Himalayan caves male
devotees chant Om until they levitate and hover upside down like bats. They
breathe only through their left nostrils, and in their spare time, they
balance cinder blocks on their cocks. Such performances are said to be
reminiscent of the seal acts at Sea World in Aurora, Ohio.
Alas. What happens to the women of Om? Women whose perfect silence is
unpetaled by a tiny scrap of sound?
Woe is me. For too many days, Om is all I have known. Om is all I can
think. Already my breasts are rising like the heads of seals beneath my
blouse and growing stiff with excitement.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Epigram on Rough Roads by Robert Burns
- Neighing at the Slope by Mahmoud Darwish
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Что ж делать
- That Nature Is A Heraclitean Fire And Of The Comfort Of The Resurrection poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Better Days by Stevens Cadet
- The Yeoman of Kent by William Somervile
- Sonnet 121: Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed by William Shakespeare
- What’s wrong with volunteering?
- Epitaph for Mr. W. Cruickshank by Robert Burns
- Thee, God, I Come from poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Sonnet 16: But wherefore do not you a mightier way by William Shakespeare
- Before Sleep poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Morning Song by Sylvia Plath
- Silence
- Streets Of Teal by Vaishnavi Prakash
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).