Buddhist Circles of Hell
Avicii, so the Buddhists tell, is the lowest level of Hell
With beings on the spit spot, toast for 3.39738624 X 10
(to the power of eight, years) These Asians like their calculus
& I wonder which wizard monk, idling by the Anuradhapura fresco,
worked this mad and near infinite math out.
I have no doubt, that Naraka exists
and a teen Swede finding 'Tim Berling' already taken on
'My Space' back in 2008 (what happened to MS, did it shrink
into an infinitesimal dot, the simulacrum of some black hole?)
Did not hesitate - to adopt 'DJ Avicii' as his nom de plume
a decadent decade ago.
Friday, the dance deejay of Buddhist hell
was found dead at 28, of alcohol-related acute pancreatitis
in a desert mountain resort in Muscat.
O, Man!
My old man (who got to live twice as long)
was found passed on (in a room in Ngong)
from over fondness (of the Hair of the Dog)
A river of fiery liquor ran through his liver
crossed the Blue Lotuses of the Utpala Naraka
(turned his skin the colour of hellfire water lilies)
before finding the sea
that lies beyond the mountains of Mehapadma
(the Great Lotus of Nakara: where they crush internal organs)
Now in-between these mystical ages, we stand on the edges
'Dj Raurava' running about wildly looking for refuge from
bottled lava
Hearing my seven year old Chelsea who is currently obsessed
by Camila Cabello, singing: 'Havana, ohh, na na
Half of my heart is in Havana/ Papa says he's got malo
He took me back (with him) to East Atlanta,
That summer night in June.'
It is short rain season in Kenya
Papa says he's called Sammy and this April
(oh yuh yuh yuh yuh yuh) he'll kula a nyahunyo!
(and YOU are NOT boarding
to East Atlanta, or even next door, at seven)
I'm in no haraka to go to Naraka
The idea is stick around long enough
to claim the Biblical three score, and ten
then
refusing to board the flight for Kalasutra
instead catch Afterlife Air Kamasutra
from mile high Jambudvipa
(island of Indians and black berries)
thots, and a thousand yojanas
from Naraka's underworld vipers.