'BUDDHA SAID NOTHING'
by Suchoon Mo



Buddha came
Buddha said nothing
Buddha said nothing nothing
Buddha said nothing nothing nothing
nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothingnothingnothingnothingnothingnothingnothingnothing.
Buddha said nothing
Buddha left

I was there
I heard nothing
I heard nothing nothing
I heard nothing nothing nothing
nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing
nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing
nothingnothingnothingnothingnothingnothingnothing
I heard nothing
I left
Buddha and I
we left
together


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Suchoon Mo is a former Korean Army Lieutenant and a retired academic living in the semiarid part of Colorado. His poems appeared in East and West, Bitter Oleander, Dissident Editions, Taj Mahal Review, Religious Humanism, Thunder Sandwich, Underground Window, Spillway Review, Subtle Tea, Stylus Poetry Journal, Malleable Jangle, Poetry Magazine, Word Riot, Word Myth, Tryst, Subterranean Quarterly, Orange Room Review, Round Table Review, Strange Road, Feathertale, Snakeskin, Flutter, The Quirk, Poetry Cemetery, Autumn Leaves, the Blue House, and others. His music compositions appeared in Sage of Consciousness, Unlikely 2.0, Mad Hatters Review, the Adroitly Placed Word. He has no formal music education