lalibela landrace #1

this is a poem

Iyesus Kristos

i mostly remember
the sounds.

the rugs somehow pristine
(weaved buddha in Christ's temple)
everywhere outside Biete Meskel
soil. the other (yikes) dharma symbol
carved millennia before germany.

the hills are live cultures,
foliage like spores on a terraced mushroom,
blooming medicine; a patient existence.
easy to romanticize and find beauty
compared to idiot world. romance
is simulated subscription stuff in america.
lalibela is not romance. the hills
are hiding God; the Fano ordained.

in dharma ugly and beautiful
are "the same." Or, the choice is illusory,
and that the mind must refrain from
judgment. that's a crock of shit.
disgust is quite natural. dharma
is right about one thing: ugly 
does not exist. but we do, and dammit,
we're men of science. we can make anything.