Dukkha's Nemesis

The title song, Dukkha's Nemesis, emerged from Patty's skull when James said, "Mom, have you even got a title song?" Guess I was thinking of all the stuff I've been reading and absorbing for years about Buddhism, cyclical existence (samsara), highest enlightenment (anutarasambuddha), together with the reality of suffering in western culture stacked up against the widespread lack of ability to deal with it, grow from it, and relegate suffering to just one corner of our existence. That sorta thing. And, Gabe and I (back when she was still Little Buddha rather than Big Buddha) had long since worked out the opening riff, just messin' around and changing the tune of supercalifragilistic in the car a few school mornings. Anyway, when we needed the title song to appear, it did; then it squished out through the fissures in my cranial casing, landed in a claylike lump at the feet of James and Adam, then molded skillfully in their hands into a piece of audible art.