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Mar 26
The heart as a drum,

and the mouth as a trumpet:


that's a human life.
Poem by the Zen-monk Muso Soseki (1274-1351), included in the 1986 collection "Japanese Death Poems", compiled by Yoel Hoffmann: "Thus have I rolled my life throughout / inside and out, reclined, upright / What is all this? / A beating drum / a trumpet’s blare / No more"

Collection "Thinkles Lusionless"
Zywa
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Zywa
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     LL and Jimmy silker
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