Law of the Playground

There was a small Buddhist monastery across the road from my school, and at lunchtime we’d often see groups of monks walking down the street. Most of the monks were lean and lithe, but there was one monk who was, to put it mildly, a right fat bastard.

The monks made sculptures from butter, and it was generally accepted among the students at our school that the other monks only kept Fat Monk around because he would eat the sculptures they fucked up. A friend of mine wrote a haiku about him for English class:

Big fat Buddhist monk

Eats the bad butter sculptures

Human rubbish bin.

Hannah P