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"Mulberries."

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A kindergarten teacher
arrived one day at my gate,

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loppers in hand, and said that
her kids were doing a silkworm

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project, and that she
had called Parks and Rec

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and it turned out
that I have the only

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mulberry tree in Mill Valley.

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So I told her, great, I
loved it, help herself.

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But the silkworms must have died
because she never came back.

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It was very sad to me that she
never returned for more mulberry

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leaves.

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"By the time the
low branches ripen,

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the pigeons are fat
and can be generous.

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Just so, let the
gods take what they

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want of this world
and its high nectars--

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Know they will leave the stews
and the nipple's erectness,

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the unguarded,
late-sweetening pleasures."

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So that's kind of the opposite
of those pears in the 19--

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the peaches in the 1973
poems where the ripe ones

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are at the top of the tree.

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The only mulberries
I ever get to eat

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are the ones at the
bottom of the tree.

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