loving kindness

Two gay men talk to Cap in front of the butcher shop

All are Friends.

Reflexive greetings are had.

What’s notorious

Is the unseen presence of disgust with mess

In these two men.

Their waterlogged presence

Filled with right angles

Dusted plants

And the stink of mindfulness.

“What was going on last night?”,

One man asks.

“There was man screaming in the parking lot”

Cap replies.

“Probably, Brian, the homeless man who sleeps there”

“That’s all right.” The one man responds back,

“I sent him loving kindness anyway.”

Yes. Leaving one closet for another.

The Buddhist tradition of not doing shit for anyone but pray for all sentient beings.

Nothing in the texts about leaving him a Jackson

So he doesn’t have to beg for a day.

And don’t expect him to do with the twenty

What you want him to do with it.

He’s a brother.

Not a shit stain that needs to be cleaned