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"Oohlala Mandala" chemical marker on copy paper, digitally modified, by Ulysses Poe |
Siddhartha
Gautama
leaves
home, Pop and Mama.
Sid tries meditation, ascetic techniques,
then plops down ‘neath the Bodhi tree five or six weeks.
keeps
meat free from cheeses,
gets born in a barn (‘tweren’t no room at the inns),
and then's murder’d at Passover, lynch’d for your sins.
hears
Gabriel beckon.
That angel says, “God’s Al-‘Ahad, Al-Wahid!”
thereby helping to jump-start Islam and its creed.
works
the art of the con,
claims,
“I am The Chosen One.” Who made that choice…?
One political party who's “not very noice.”*
* One mss, a late one, substitutes
"A yahweheightless yahoo who's "not very noice."
