Budget Meditation

By Aaron Michael Schultz

I’m 34 and freezing 

alone at Himalaya’s base 

 

unsure where sky meets 

time meets nirvana 

 

but I’m sure that this 

is where some god lives 

 

Then I wake upon my floor 

the height behind me just 

 

a dusty couch again  

and the wind that carried 

 

my soul though the cosmos just 

a single box fan I 

 

leave running all year 

round