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THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 90 by HAN SHAN

First Line: ALL YOU SENSELESS BURIED HEADS
Last Line: YOU DISCOVER A BODY'S CURSE
Subject(s): CHINESE LITERATURE; IGNORANCE; WISDOM; DULLNESS; STUPDITY;
All you senseless buried heads
preferring unlit demon cave
I keep urging you to practice
but you're stubborn and confused
brushing off Cold Mountain's words
whirling faster karma's flux
until beheaded and in two
you discover a body's curse



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