theology in the morning

she says that jesus
had some good ideas,
that he knocked it out
of the park
with that sermon on the mount.
but I prefer
Buddha, she says. it fits better
into my yoga classes
for meditative purposes.
i'd like to believe
that each time we live
and die, we come back
at a higher level
and not necessarily in
human form.
maybe we come back
as a grasshopper. but
I think I may have been
a queen, like Cleopatra
one time, she says,
turning to look at herself
in the mirror.
I have dreams about pyramids
and banana trees all the time.
do these yoga pants look
okay on me?
I should have worn
the black ones. my butt
looks too big in these.