Toilet Paper

Toilet Paper

How many rolls of toilet paper
will make you safe?
How many bottles of Purell?
How much peanut butter or pasta,
bread or beer?
How much money will make you secure?
Ten thousand dollars? A million? 
A billion dollars and a yacht?
At what point do you say
“I have what I need”?
Ask the Buddha. He says
It is the nature of all things to change.
It is the nature of all beings to suffer.
It is the nature of all beings to die.
How many rolls will make you safe?
Wouldn’t it better if you, yourself,
were multi-layered, and soft, and strong?

Lynn Ungar  3-16-20