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"Forever green."

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"In the new town
outside of Tokyo,

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housewives wanted seriously to
have green stuff in their yard.

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But trees shed their leaves--

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much trouble.

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So they planted
evergreen plastic trees.

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An autumn morning in
Kyoto 400 years ago,

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Rikyu, the first tea
master, asked his son

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to clean the tea garden.

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After the sun swept and
reswept all foreign leaves,

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the master shook a maple tree.

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In the Jurassic valley
150 million years ago,

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a dinosaur droned in the bog.

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Time transformed
him into fossil oil,

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then God metamorphosed
him into plastic.

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In Tokyo, he now stands a tree--

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never shedding leaves--
forever green, forever green."

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