On Buddha’s Being Fat And Poor

The Buddha didn’t do much jogging,

judging by one figurine:

he was fat and had a begging dish.

What are we to make of that,

in light of modern obsessions?—

That Health is not the main goal of Life?

Or Wealth? Or they are not physical?

Many of us could not believe,

fettered as we were by what

we’d been guided by for so long.

‘Studies Have Shown,’ someone kept saying.

And yet there was that smile on his chops.