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AFTER IKKYU: 36 by JAMES HARRISON

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First Line: TEN THOUSAND POINTLESS EQUATIONS LEFT JUST AFTER DAWN
Last Line: ACROSS THE GOLF COURSE, THE FIRST ONE TO THE SEVENTH TEE.

Ten thousand pointless equations left just after dawn,
the city's air heavy with the fat of countless dieters.
Saw Ummon strolling down Wilshire with Yunmen,
unperturbed, disappearing into each other, emerging
with laughter. Saw thirty-three green, waking parrots
watch a single black cat raising the dew as she walked
across the golf course, the first one to the seventh tee.



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