Planting fruit trees for the next generation

[Guest guest]

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So you've cut up your hide and stretched it,

pegged it down to dry with definite,

sharp-pointed desires,

 

but have you planted any fruit trees

for the next generation?

 

Wisdom offered you is like a ball

thrown at a boundary post,

 

useless as molasses fed to a tawny bull

to help it give more milk!

 

- Lalla

14th Century North Indian mystic

 

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From " Naked Song "

Versions by Coleman Barks

Maypop, 1992

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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