Poet Park Jin-gwan's 53 Precepts 31st 28. What happens in the subway
What happens in the subway
Among the things that happen in the subway,
An old man looks down on the world in the fall
What is focused on the old man?
Showing his wallet outside the glasses frame and bragging about his money
What is he trying to say in that way?
A saint of enlightenment who knows everything about the world
An old woman fiddling with her jewelry ring
Trying to brag about herself too
The doctor tells the old man to walk
And at home, he tells him never to take a nap
So he says he takes the subway
Since young children have to pay to take the subway
Since Confucius takes the subway, the country has become one where the old people
are asked to pay to take the subway.
I have nothing to say about the reason the doctor is talking about, but
old people who ride the subway without doing anything
should be told to avoid going to work in the morning when young people are going to work
If old people do something wrong on the subway in the morning,
it can easily turn into elder abuse, so I want to say that we should absolutely educate
old people not to ride the subway during rush hour.
Looking at the election for the superintendent of education in Seoul
If there is something I want to say to the old people in Seoul
old people living in Seoul should make a good judgment.
How distorted education has been implemented so far
Those who sang a song praising the US military trying to divide the 38th parallel
After seeing the merciless killings in Jeju Island
should be taught to repent.
The Catholic Church praising the US military on the day the US military entered Seoul
The day the Catholics praise the place they call the best place
Isn't praising a disease for them?
I can't help but say they are sick people
There are those who are shouting in the subway
They say you have to believe in heaven to go to heaven
What is it for them, give them a gift
Look, when I see the news that a woman who was in Ukraine with a Russian flag died while under investigation
The UK and the US that were making such a fuss didn't report it
Korea didn't report it either
Can we really say that this is the real world where people live!
There is no poet who has written a poem about something that happened in the subway
The reason I want to leave behind this poem is because poets
There are poets who use their brains to write
And there are poets who ask you to write poetry with your body.
As I was sitting in the subway, a student asked me a question as he sat down
A story I heard while I was at Odaesan Mountain, that King Sejo was sick
But Manjusri Bodhisattva washed his back and cured his illness
Is that story true?
I said that the story about curing the illness of King Sejo, a murderer, was a fabrication
How could Manjusri Bodhisattva really cure a murderer?
I told him that, and the student said he knew
He said he got off the subway and took a midterm exam
That didn't come up on the test, so he didn't need to know
I answered him like this and asked him if he had a dream
He said he had a dream, so I told him to dream one
If you want to be a doctor, you have to dream of being a doctor
October 17, 2024