Say What!?!

My answer to “What do you do?”

Artwork by A.B. Godfreed

When they ask me
what I’ve been doing
‘cos inevitably
nosy will,
I’ll not cower in my
unproductive,
live-n-direct,
so-so
landing w/o running
traveling w/o moving
participating w/o knowing
the teaching
for this monastery of life’s not calling
so must do nothing
amid insults to the heart
and where is the love
in all
this
illegitimate being
when unable to abide in the self
through no love lost…