Bodhidharma sat there,
they say, nine years, but
you know how they talk.
Bodhidharma there to
wonder why he thinks
this could be different
from that. To wonder
what it might have been
we think differentiates
one depth from another.
Isn’t that the secret?
Bodhidharma said
to the wall. You
won’t know your
self until you stop
deceiving yourself,
Bodhidharma said
to the wall. Sounds
sound, until the self-
referentials begin
to sink in. Then
words mumble. Slow.
Into the nothing that is
the walls around.
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