11/19
Sonnets From Other Lives: Shanti

She decided this would be her meditation.
It would be all about right livelihood.
Checking groceries not as automation,
but as creation. Well, it sounded good.
To be here now there was for sure a challenge,
but Shanti learned to get in to her zone—
to put her mind into a perfect balance
between boredom and an infinite unknown.
She sang out PLU codes in her mind
as a kind of numerated mantra.
She practiced bagging groceries blind,
a sort of cross between Tetris & Tantra.
Shanti worked to keep her center still,
& somehow have a way to pay the bills.