A POEM - SEEK NOT TO FIND

SEEK NOT TO FIND
“Seek not to find,”
he said to me,
as we drove along out there
in the desert at dusk.
“and in that way,
you’ll find what you do not seek.”
I looked over at him, frowned, and said,
“well, what the fuck does that mean?”
He laughed hard for a few moments,
His body shaking and bouncing the seat.
“I have no clue, ho ho!
I read it somewhere, in some stupid book,
And I’ve been saying it to people ever since.
You’re the first one who’s ever called me out, ho ho!”