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You've probably all
heard the phrase sweets

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of the hills, sweets
of the fields,

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this is called
"Sours of the Hills."

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Last summer or last fall walking
through some of the mountain

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ridges north of Kyoto I
decided to taste everything,

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and most of them were sour.

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[LAUGHTER]

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You know all those
little berries

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that birds eat, those little
blue ones, the little red ones,

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little black ones.

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I never have been able to
master Japanese botany,

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I don't know the names of
more than half a dozen plants.

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"Sours of the Hills."

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Barbed seeds in double
ranks sprung for taking off.

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Half Moon hairy seeds in
the hair of the wrist.

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Majestic fluff, sails,
rayed, and spined uphill

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at eye level hardly a breeze.

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Amber fruit with veins
on a bending stem,

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the size of an infant pea.

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Plumes wave seeds spill.

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Blue blackberry on a
bush turned leaf purple.

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Deep, sour, dark, tart, a
sharp in the back of the mouth.

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The hair and from head to
foot stuck with seeds, burrs,

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next summer's summer grasses.

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Strolling through vines and
grasses into the wild sour--

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I didn't read that right,
I couldn't read my writing.

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I'll take the last part again.

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Blue blackberry on a
bush turned leaf purple.

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Deep, sour, dark, tart, sharp
in the back of the mouth.

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The hair and from head to
foot stuck with seeds, burrs,

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next summer's mountain weeds.

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Strolling through vines and
grasses into the wild sour.

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