WHERE WOULD IT BE

To light a cigarette,
all you have to do
is to use a lighter.

To cook in the kitchen,
all you have to do
is do turn on the stove.

Have it ever occur to you
where the fire would be
after you shut the lighter,
after you turn off the stove?

You might want to say
it’s absurd to ask you
such a stupid question.

Then why do you keep asking me
where your soul would be
after you die?

(2006-10-16)