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Now are the ones I wrote
I've just come back

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from Japan and from living
again in this temple, where I've

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been adopted in the family.

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And I read to their
two favorite poems

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out of what I wrote for them.

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And one of them and I was
thinking as I arrived there

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from India, what did I see?

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What was I going to do?

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And I feel quite tired after
all hearing a lot of politics

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and everything and suddenly,
I thought, why don't I write

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and what they're always
talking about they're always

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talking about nothing?

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All of it [LAUGHS].

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So I'm really sorry
about something.

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Why don't I-- what's
the matter with you?

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Your over here, you are--
you're supposed to know them.

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So I started, I
so loved the subject,

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I decided I'm going to write
a whole series of poems

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on nothing.

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So here's the first
poem on nothing,

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without asking actually
and they love this poem,

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I don't know what you think.

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But anyhow, this our
first poem "On Nothing."

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Forget the wind rattling
the windows, plum

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blossoms and pine sharing
sunlight, contemplates nothing.

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But nothing is too big, I
ladders ready for in and out

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of it, as big as a laugh.

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Nothing floats a
balloon without sighs,

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I am too slow too quick to
catch it, oh, am I nothing?

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