The man asked the master, “Why?”
The master said, “Ah.”
The man asked, “What?”
The master said, “Arrgh.”
The man asked, “Where?”
The master said, “Here.”
The man asked,”Here?”
The master said, “Here and there.”
The man hummed, “Hmmm.”
The master said, “And that, too.”
The man asked, “When?”
The master said, “Now.”
The man asked, “Now?”
The master said, “And then.”
The man asked, “Now and then?”
The master said, “Then and then,”
looking back and forth.
The man asked, “Then and then?”
The master said, “Ah and Arrgh, now
and then and then, yin and yang
and auld lang syne and
hmmmm all in Einstein time.”
The man asked, “There’s a connection here?”
The master said, “And there and everywhere.”
The man scratched his head, said
“Thank you, I think,”
and headed to bed.