The Dalai Voma, Reborn And Terrestrial Once Again
A poem by Dash MacIntyre
The other day a baby made direct eye contact with me
and although I was in the middle
of jotting down a twelve-top order across the restaurant
I was transfixed.
baby stared like a glassed lake
and crystallized something in my soul
this was a prodigy self-actualized
far ahead of the top percentile.
he stared
and stared
studying me
learning me
understanding me
judging me
pitying me
and loving me
all unblinking
and then threw up all over himself
without a break in his steely resolve
staring at me as his mother picked him up
staring while taxied away across the restaurant
and staring until only the closed bathroom door
broke
our gaze.
world
I have found the staring contest king
reborn and terrestrial once again
and he has a long successful reign ahead of him.
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