ENTERTAINMENT, COME WHAT MAY: SONNET 180

Entertainment, Come What May

Sonnet 180

Beef does entertain your soul and fish

My soul while neither entertains the soul

Of those who feed on fruits and greens with relish.

And do remember how the beastly Mongol

Was entertained by plunders, rapes, and bloodbath,

And ruthless Hitler by the ethnic cleansing,

While the Buddha walk'd the joyous path

Of truth, compassion, oneness, love and giving.

Diverse are entertainers, and diverse

Are the entertained, but entertainment

Remains the only motor for all riders

Of the mankind van; and, true, the moment

The motor stops, then all will swiftly die --

The young, the old; the good, the bad; the brave, the shy.

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