Reincarnation?

Buddhists maintain our actions are of 
lasting consequence, that our righteous and evil 
deeds 
determine the reach 
of life thereafter. 

With this notion set firmly in mind, 
let's consider the ad-bot, the bogus 
social media account. 

They're easy to notice with a functioning brain, 
even in the absence of a skilled tutor. 

Note the abundance of "friends," the commonness 
of interests, the photo warped with age 

in spite of modern technology. 

Laugh, when the spirit emerges, at 

the troubled language expressed 

in confident honesty. These 

are the hallmarks of the 

privileged damned. 

One can safely imagine the authors 

of these profiles, lonely and incensed 

like murderous turtles. Working 

expensive keyboards, producing 

stiff illumination. 

Perhaps their efforts are 

penance of undignified karma, 

a playful humiliation 

sentenced by the gods. 

Who knows? 

Not me. I can 

barely type ten words 

without misspelling an 

easy one like 

'cat'. 

Enlightenment is a personal road, 

and even DNA is profoundly 

random. 

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