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This poem is called "Tao,"
which is the way in Taoism.

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Those of you who know anything
about Oriental philosophy.

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"Tao."

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I take my leave of
the hats and gloves

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and indecisions, the manuals
for internal combustion,

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the teaspoons and insomnia.

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And my days under fetid glass.

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The sun declares daylight.

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My head is bedazzled
with garnets.

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I am scholar to feathered
texts of flight.

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The incantations of oaks
with their barbaric flags

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and strange manifestos.

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The savage tribes of sunflowers.

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I devour rivers with
my celebrated teeth.

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I ascend the magnetic
smoke of bonfires.

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I visit the acrobatic moon and
in the entrails of the winds

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I divine the authentic
history of passion.

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My lungs, lights, the
pearls of my testicles.

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The pulsing glove of my bowel.

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The courteous flexure of knee
and elbow enter the galaxies.

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I matriculate in holy inertia.

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