From Pratik's Current Issue: American poet, David Axelrod's new poem, "The Guru gives me advice"

 DAVID AXELROD

The Guru gives me advice

(For Dr. Bob Schenck, aka Swami AnandVeetkam)

 

Your laugh tickles my telephone

as you tell me, “There is no evil.

It’s all the same. Just how things

are.” I’m infuriated when some

bureaucrat says, “I understand,

but there’s nothing I can do.”

You cackle, “Perfect! Of course

there’s nothing anyone has to do.”

Someone stymies my plan. You

ask, “Why do you complain?

You picked this.” But I’m like

the man at the zoo who is told

that hyenas mate infrequently.”

Imagine that sad fact. You say,

“Broken plans just teach us that

our desires are just our vanity.”

I wonder why the hyena is laughing.

 

 

David Axelrod, Ph.D., is an alumnus of the University of Iowa Writing Workshop (MFA/Poetry) and a self-proclaimed “populist” poet whose mission is to promote the appreciation and writing of poetry. He is a three-time Fulbright grantee, and was the first “Fulbright Poet-in-Residence” in the China. He has shared the stage with such notables as Robert Bly and Allen Ginsberg, and has performed at the United Nations.

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