AucklandPoetry.com presents Poet Resident JAN OSKAR HANSEN on http://OSKAR.AUCKLANDPOETRY.COM

Thursday, February 08, 2007

mothers

A Mother.


Buddhists should be grateful for Buddha’s
Mother, hadn’t it been for her he would have
Had to get up from the floor go out and find
A job…This gave him time to think, be wise
Say the right tings, not alienating people, and
Get a following, who, when his mother died,
Fed him honeyed cakes and butter milk

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