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
- If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain’d poem – John Keats poems
- Ольга Берггольц – Триптих 1949 года
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Бедняк
- Pride and Fury by Mahmoud Darwish
- Ок Мельникова – Let it be
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Что шумишь
- Song—A Rose-bud by my Early Walk by Robert Burns
- Владимир Маяковский – Не эти правильно Октябрь празднуют… (РОСТА №398)
- Guilt poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Яков Полонский – А. Н. Майкову (ответ на стихи его: Полонский! Суждено опять судьбою злою)
- Иннокентий Анненский – Гармония
- Ольга Седакова – Госпожа и служанка
- The Hosting Of The Sidhe by William Butler Yeats
- Extempore in the Court of Session by Robert Burns
- I am only the house of your beloved by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
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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).