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IF YOU HAVE TIME

by joseph-sinclair

by Nanao Sakaki If you have time to chatter Read books If you have time to read Walk into mountain desert and ocean If you have time to walk Sing songs and dance If you have time to dance Sit quietly, you lucky happy idiot.                                             Nanao Sakaki                                                           Japan                                                From Can I Buy a Slice of Sky                                                Edited by Grace Nichols                                                Published by Hodder Childrens Books 1996
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This is intended to be included in the collection entitled Cultured Pearls which is to be devoted to poetry by poets other than myself that has had some special meaning for me.

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