Poem for the Day - My Tao Name

My Tao Name   

What do you think of my name, Joyous Lake, 

I asked my daughter over the phone, 

when I had finished deleting  

another sex site on my Twitter account. 

A loud burst of laughter followed. It 

descended down the line, over the waterfowl 

paddling the lilies and into the rivers beyond. 

Further still from the poems I had created with the 
Chinese I-Ching, an ancient Taoist symbol. The Lake 

regardless of change can achieve tranquility in 

disturbance, Chinese scholars say. Why can't 

"Bliss" and "Jude in the Mood" tell this apart 

from a whorehouse of sexual arousal. Nothing

surprises me in this virtual world, these ladies

imagining 'Joyous Lake' as a red light district. 

Might they compare the deeper soft petals of silk,

black-stringed corset to a lotus flower on a lake,

magpies in taught suspendered trees, caroling.