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There's a little--

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This is for anybody here
who comes from Pennsylvania.

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In Pennsylvania in
the central Eastern

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part in the German areas there
are towns with strange names,

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and you may have heard
about them, Bird In Hand,

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Blue Ball,
Intercourse, Paradise.

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You know these, this tradition?

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These are the Pennsylvania
Dutch, the Amish.

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And I was on Route 30
near Lancaster, PA,

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and there's a place
called the Dutch castle.

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It was made of real stone.

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Cost a fortune.

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But it looked like it
was made of cardboard.

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And we would come to
that kind of [INAUDIBLE]..

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There was a book by
[INAUDIBLE] called Out

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Of [INAUDIBLE] where
real flowers were

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made to look like synthetic
flowers and so on and so on.

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So this poem is about that.

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And it's about--
what is it called?

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Transmigration of souls?

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That's what the poem
is about, I think.

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But it's called No Wind,
which is a literal translation

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of nirvana.

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No wind, no movement.

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Of course, God probably
thinks wind [INAUDIBLE]

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person's of something.

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Troubling the
hairs of your back.

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Today I'm sitting outside
the Dutch castle on Route 30

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near Bird In Hand and Blue
Ball watching the Amish snap

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their suspenders
at the sunglasses.

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I'm dreaming of my
black suit again

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and the store in Paradise, where
I will be fitted out for life.

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A small girl and I recognize
each other from her former life

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together in Cordoba.

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We weep over the plastic
tote bags, the apple combs,

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and the laughing harmonicas.

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We fall down on the
hot carpet remembering

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the marble forest
of the Great Mosque

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and the milky walls
of the Jewish quarter.

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I will see her
again in 800 years

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but all this is sorted out.

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I give it that much time
based on the slack mind

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of dirty drinking water
of the slow decay.

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I give it at least
that much time

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before we lie down again in
the tiny lilacs and paper love

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houses of the next age.

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