An innocent bystander asks:
>Why has Bodhidharma no beard?

How absurd!

Tina :)

p.s. 
(She swallowed a bird. 
How absurd!
She swalloed a bird!
She swallowed the bird
to catch the spider
that wriggled and wriggled and wriggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider
to catch the fly.
I don't know why 
she swallowed the fly.
Perhaps she'll die.)

p.p.s.
(She swallowed a cat
to catch the bird.
Imagine that.
She swallowed a cat.
She swallowed the bird
to catch the spider
that wriggled and wriggled and wriggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider
to catch the fly.
I don't know why 
she swallowed the fly.
Perhaps she'll die.)

p.p.p.s.
(She swallowed a dog 
to catch the cat.
She swallowed a cat
to catch the bird.
She swallowed the bird
to catch the spider
that wriggled and wriggled and wriggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider
to catch the fly.
I don't know why
she swallowed the fly.
Prehaps she'll die.)

p.p.p.p.s.
What?  Bodhidharma wasn't a she?  Oh, well then I don't
know why he hasn't a beard.  But you know, if it wasn't
him who swallowed the fly, why didn't he?  I mean, flies
get in the way all the time.  Especially if it's summer,
as it often is in the Orient.  Perhaps the fly got stuck
in his beard before he could swallow it.  That must be 
the reason, for I can think of no other.  So there now,
you see, Bodhidharma quite clearly did have a beard 
after all.

Any other questions?