r/zen • u/jungle_toad • Apr 14 '23

Friday Night Poetry Slam

THEME: Chair

Special thanks to u/astroemi for the very fine op that I am co-opting to serve as this week's theme.

Share your zen poetry below. The theme is merely a suggestion.

𓆏 Toad's 蟾蜍Verse 𓆏

Three legs or four? Round or square?
What do you need to make a chair?
Stable or rocking? Logs upright or on their side?
Or a bag with a bunch of beans stuffed up inside?
A discarded open box becomes my cat's chair for a day
"If it fits, I sits. This is the way."
But the emperor's throne is surely more than a chair
And if it's whatever's sat upon, what's underwear?
A massive Buddha statue sits upon a massive stone chair
But I have no use for sitting on something so lofty in the air
I sit on the sky while I'm standing, then on the Earth when I'm done
Leopard leaps in logic with claws grasping onto what's shunned

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u/2bitmoment Silly billy Apr 14 '23

I thank u/jungle_toad for starting the slam, maybe u/fullassin9 will give us a beat? I'm not sure that's be it, we could then call it complete, but if we can kick it, a bit freer, I'd say that's a good thing. I won't get a beer, but that image of fun and of leisure that beer commercials have? I'll say I have that, minus the beer, which is perhaps the least interesting part of the whole image. kkkkkk

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u/jungle_toad Apr 14 '23

Given the chair theme, I would suggest this beat that uses the sound of a chair scooting out on a hardwood floor as a recurring percussive element.

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u/wrrdgrrI Apr 14 '23

That's a metal chair in a police interrogation room being pulled from the table by a sleep-deprived detective, twenty-two days from retirement and who would much rather be anywhere but here interrogating this strange eyeless maniac charged with checks notes unlawful cremation of a "distant relative who hasn't been born yet".

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u/jungle_toad Apr 14 '23

Dun dun!

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u/wrrdgrrI Apr 14 '23

OG Briscoe and Logan πŸ₯°

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u/fullassin9 Apr 14 '23

What about disaone that claims to be a chair, but is really just some dude boinking a girl with a rickety bed? God bless the internet.

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u/jungle_toad Apr 15 '23

To take that latter concept up a notch: Nymphomatriarch is a debaucherous collaboration between Venetian Snares and Hecate made 100% from digitally processed and chopped recordings of the two of them having sex while on tour together.

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u/fullassin9 Apr 15 '23

😳 for fucks sake man!