Plumber’s Satori

 

People call me up and ask me to come over.

I say I don’t do drains. I don’t unclog anything.

They say what kind of plumber is that, Jim?

 

If the goal of plumbing is no leaks,

That is no goal at all.

I am not that kind of plumber.

I am more like

 

Joyce Johnson observed

About a plumber named Kerouac

 

Who said that a discreet separate self is a fiction

In a world where everything is a composite

Of non-self ingredients.

 

 

24 April 2013

 

 

[Published in The Groundless Ground: Poems 2010-2014.

© 2014 by Jim Cohn.]