I Begged Zuleikha for Her Love and She Said,


If there is a bird

my love will grow wings.


If there is a bird

a dervish will ejaculate mirrors

a prophet will drink the desert


but never ask the Sphinx


what lottery numbers

will Rumi dream and write

in the eyes of the beloved


since we all know

what we have always known that


a Greek tiger is never drunk

a bronze Buddha is always dumb


so does a poem singing meretriciously

in the air that doesn't even care


whether our heart is made of cuckoo-


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