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"The Song of the Tangle."

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The background of
this for him is

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that Allen Ginsberg was
visiting me in Kyoto one summer,

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and we went out in the
hills far north of town

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on a very hot day, and
found a little Shinto shrine

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in a completely isolated,
mountainous, wooded area.

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Walked up under the great
tall trees and up the

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walk to the shrine,
and paid our respects

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to the god of the
shrine, and then

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noticed that someone had placed
an offering of first-class sake

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right at the foot of
the entrance up inside

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the first enclosure, where
you're not supposed to go.

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And so we took over the
prerogatives of the gods

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that afternoon.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Sat on the wooden god platform
and drank the god sake

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and looked all around.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Song of the tangle.

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Two thigh hills hold us at
the fork round mount center.

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We sit all folded on the dusty,
plain, planks of a shrine.

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Drinking top class sake
that was left for the god.

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Called tree halls, the
sun passed the summit.

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Heat sunk through the
vines, twisted sassa.

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Cicada singing,
swirling in the tangle.

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The tangle of the thigh.

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The brush through which we push.

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