Documents for Poets 3
“Transcendental Meditation helps
a man to remember who he is.”
So said the oldest man in the world
after learning the simple practice.
Go with a few clean clothes in a suitcase:
you can find a hotel room somewhere
overlooking a canal, close eyes
for twenty minutes, slowly open again
and find that you are there
looking out at unfamiliar surroundings
which over a few hours, a couple
of days, take on the semblances
of the old walks and pathways - faces
of the young recall old friends –
knowing also that they can’t know
whom they resemble. There’s no
satisfaction in knowing that
you too must resemble someone. So
with its unique attributes a leaf –
and just a leaf – floats down the canal.
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