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Everything Hurts

Young people

really feel

a lot of pain

as do older people

who have more time

to get used to it,

and I have found

that I always hurt

and the best I can do

is to sit in a chair,

even sleep

is painful

and I think

that everybody else

and even maybe

everything else

has this kind of pain,

like the fly

in the basement

probably has

arthritis,

and a Zen master

once said

"Even if you get

to the very bottom

of Zen meditation,

there is still

suffering"

so oh well,

no pain,

no something or other.

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kongsaeng-chris-everson

American

Published: Jul 25, 2011
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