Fun and Games with a Sphere

Last night I cut off an arm

and gave it to a poor woman.

Then I cut off the other arm ––

gave that to her too.

So now I have no arms. Ha ha ha.

Early this morning I cut off both legs

and gave them to a nearby idler.

Now I’m legless. Ha ha ha.

I wonder though:

What the hell am I doing? Ha ha ha.

This morning I gave up my torso

to a lion in the zoo.

So now I have

no shoulder-blades. No navel, either.

No lungs.What's more, no spleen or liver. Ha ha ha.

It can’t be helped. Now I'm nothing

but a head, nothing but a head,

nothing but a head. Ha ha ha.

A bald monk from Chogye Temple

kicks my head away.

Of l go, spinning merrily.

Another bald monk pokes at me with his head

I soar up high

then down I fall, plunk.

World games! Global games! Ha ha ha.

Just look at this!

With one single butt I’ll send the earth,

this helpless earth astray

off course, off its tracks. I'll send this world off

to vanish forever into some outer space void.