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The God Ganesha* Walked Into the Bar...

Marie Kazalia


Lifted his elephant body
up onto the stool beside me.
His thick trunk flopped,
(into my life),
in my lap.
I stroked the live thing,
rubbed, as we talked, about
deep and powerful thoughts.
I can not now
tell you, what they were exactly.
But his energy entered
me, and would cause changes to occur,
he told me. -- And I said, that’s OK,
change a good thing.
Even though I’m not so young
anymore, I’m still eager
to learn. And besides,
nothing will change
that should stay as it
already is---
��* What I know about the god Ganesh, as he is called in North India, and Ganesha as he is called in South India-- where they tend to add the letter *a* to the ends of names and words: In the anciently written Mahabarata -- (Maha means great and barat(a) the ancient name for the land we now call India--so that Mahabarata means The Great Story of India)--Ganesha is the elephant headed storyteller that relates many epic tales of gods, goddesses, kings and princesses etc. -- In recent years, in South India, the god Ganesha commonly appears in colorfully painted 3 dimensional form, with both elephant head and body, placed at the entrances to smaller newer temples. Some people in South India told me that it is only thru Ganesha that one can gain access to all the other gods. After reading this poem, a woman recently returned from India, said in Delhi figures of Ganesh are displayed in all shop as the god of prosperity. Diane di Prima pointed out that Ganesh was the son of the god Shiva who’d cut off his head and replaced it with the head of elephant, that Ganesh is the god of over-coming obstacles, and the lord of truth telling but also lord of making it all up, the images of Ganesh holding a pen and writing indicates he is the patron god of writers, and because of this Diane said she has a small figure of Ganesh on her desk at home and post card images of him holding his pen...yet, I know, the god Ganesha, walked into the bar, lifted his elephant body, up onto the stool beside me. His thick trunk flopped, in my lap. I stroked the live thing, rubbed, as we talked, about deep and powerful thoughts. I can not now tell you, what they were exactly.
��But his energy entered me, and “would cause changes to occur”, he told me. -- And I said, “that’s OK, change is good ....”





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