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“Look at the cherry blossoms!
Their color and scent fall with them,
Are gone forever,
Yet mindless
The spring comes again.”
―
Their color and scent fall with them,
Are gone forever,
Yet mindless
The spring comes again.”
―

“Hearing a crow with no mouth
Cry in the deep
Darkness of the night,
I feel a longing for
My father before he was born.”
― Crow With No Mouth
Cry in the deep
Darkness of the night,
I feel a longing for
My father before he was born.”
― Crow With No Mouth

“fucking flattery, success, money.
I just sit back and suck my thumb.”
― Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master
I just sit back and suck my thumb.”
― Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master

“Like vanishing dew,
a passing apparition
or the sudden flash
of lightning -- already gone --
thus should one regard one's self.”
―
a passing apparition
or the sudden flash
of lightning -- already gone --
thus should one regard one's self.”
―

“that stone Buddha deserves all the
birdshit it gets
I wave my skinny arms like a tall
flower in the wind”
― Crow With No Mouth
birdshit it gets
I wave my skinny arms like a tall
flower in the wind”
― Crow With No Mouth

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