While I Am Reading Taking the Path of Zen

The sound of your shower stops flowing. Now
the moist, sandy scrip, scrip, scrip of razor
climbs your leg. Sakyamuni exclaimed,
scrip, scrip, "All beings in the universe
are Tathagata." Scrip. The lather, blade,
and lovely, larvy stubble in the drain.

Tom Koontz
The Flying Island 1997