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A Buddha Sighting

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

September 7, 2017

When I was three I saw baby Buddha in an apple tree by the Hudson When we grew up Buddha climbed down from his apple tree And took the New York Central Railroad down the Hudson into Manhattan to Grand Central Station And took the Times Square Shuttle and then another subway downtown And got out at Wall Street And disappeared forever into the New York Stock Exchange Although some say he has been sighted Working in the bowels of the system to enlighten everyone as to how to live like Sidhartha without money

Lawrence Ferlinghetti


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