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A melancholy autumn wind What can be done Why do people No one really knows Many paths lead If at the end of our journey No beginning, Rain, hail, snow and ice: The ways of proclaiming Cover your path As Ikkyu does not think of his body This world The vagaries of life, If you break open the cherry tree, To write something and leave it behind us, Look at the cherry blossoms! why is it all so beautiful this fake dream | this ink painting of wind oh yes things exist like the echo when you yell sin like a madman until you can't do anything else fuck flattery success money one long pure beautiful road of pain mirror facing mirror sick of it whatever it's called sick of the names a well nobody dug filled with no water oh green green willow wonderfully red flower not two not one either Ikkyu this body isn't yours I say to myself nature's a killer I won't sing to it suddenly nothing but grief when I was forty-seven everybody came to see me my monk friend has a weird endearing habit even before trees rocks I was nothing no nothing only those wintry crows if there's nowhere to rest at the end that stone Buddha deserves all the birdshit it gets no words sitting alone night in my hut eyes closed hands open the wise know nothing at all melons eggplants rice rivers the sky go down on your silly knees pray I found my sparrow Sonrin dead one morning I hate it I know it's nothing but I When it blows, Dimly for thirty years; | ||
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The German shepherd gentle large goofy dog who lives with us could teach Ikkyu a thing or two about leaving faeces right in the middle of hiking trails.
I'll go rowing now, then, later, pay a man $1400 dollars to poke and prod my mouth with needle and scraper and drill.
I don't know.
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