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    Again the ancient, meaningless
    Abstractions of the educated mind.
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    If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land
    gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I
    not attain highest perfect enlightenment.
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    Hands and knees
    Pushing the Bear grass, thousands
    Of arrowhead leavings over a
    Hundred yards.
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