by Michael C. Keith
Douse me . . . please.
Douse me now.
Strike the match.
Let me light the world.
(Thich Quang Duc burned himself to death at a busy intersection in Saigon in 1963. He was protesting the U.S. supported regime of Ngo Dinh Diem, which had long been persecuting the country’s Mahayana Buddhist monks.)
Category: Poetry