Year nineteen hundred sixty-eight,
Inside the district known as Haight,
There was a man of local fame,
A mystic man who never came.
He studied ancient eastern lore,
Had women knocking on his door.
His tantric prowess of that day,
Was great, so women paid to play.
A Nehru shirt, half buttoned up,
Displayed his chest to every slut.
While sitting ’neath a bust of Mao,
He preached the sacred way of Tao.
The Kama Sutra was his text,
For naïve women that he hexed.
And love for him was just a game,
With Sue and Sheila both the same.
Always trying to make a hit,
And milk it till the lady split.
While never really being hip,
But rather, being just a rip.
Each Kama Sutra variation,
Taken without hesitation.
All broken spokes – his wheel of karma.
Devoid of god and short on dharma.
To prove that he was truly hip,
He took a one-way acid trip,
And lost the player’s final game.
Forgotten was his trumped up name.
end
Mr. E. Bates is a poet who likens the quest for love to a foxhunt,
in which it is the chase and not the kill that appeals.
The Lust Guru