what are you doing?
nothing
people pay good money to learn to do that
do what?
do nothing
nothing?
like a pebble in the stream
ah like that
yes like that
me?
yes you
um, you drown?
drown?
the pebble
let’s take it from the top again, the nothing
ok
at the feet of the stone Buddha
who?
you
ah ok. nothing?
nothing. let the stone become nothing
the pebble?
the Buddha

from under

the blue cup
the root cause

for January rain

Samar Ghose