The Master said: "Why does Time repeat Itself ?"

The Zen-Koan as Poem - The Same Question - Part Four

The Master said: "Why does Time repeat Itself ?"

Said Monk-Disciple 1: "If Time doesn't repeat Itself, everything will disappear from sight."

Said Monk-Disciple 2: "A repeated offence calls for a higher time sentence."

Said Monk-Disciple 3: "Time repeats Itself to accentuate the fact that time and time again we all make the same mistake(s) and never really learn the Lesson."

Said Monk-Disciple 4: "Repeating the same mistake distinguishes us from quadrupeds, beasts, ocean mammals, mongrels, witches, meat-bone-scale-hoof-and-mud-eaters, and from publishers, football commentators, critics and prize-givers."

Said Monk-Disciple 5: "Unlike repeated bird and bestial roe calls in the woods and jungles, Time is a Man-made Leviathon machine which produces History books of civilized peoples in every epoch under the same paradigm: programmes, patterns and the DNA of politicians, pontiffs and royal paragons."

Said Monk-Disciple 6: "Time repeats Itself to keep and/or beat time: how else can music be made for the body to dance and dream through the den of delirious boredom ?"

Said Monk-Disciple 7: "The heart-beat is the reproduction of the Big-Bounce before the Bang on a slightly less larger scale, of course."

Said Mon-Disciple 8: "Beat time with your feet and you get to dancing at the Super-Bowl pageant. Beat your head with screams and howls and base balls and you get to "sock-her" in "le fut."

Said Monk-Disciple 9: "Time repeats Itself to make murderous madness sink deeper into the mentality of Man whereas monkeys merely mope."

Said Monk-Disciple 10: "Everything grows including faults by repetition in timely stages."

Said Monk-Disciple 11: "Only through the repetition of Time, Life manifests Itself; contrari-wise we'd all probably die (nay, would long be dead) of boredom or of the measles."

And the Master said: "Can you take Time as or for an example ?"

(c) T. Wignesan - Paris, September 28, 2022.