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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.

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Once in a while it vanishes – in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three.
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I don’t need to explain why it’s a curse.
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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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And now, advice for beginning mystics.
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