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If you keep making jokes,
the poet told the old monk, people
won't think you're serious.

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Everything
the old monk says
I always wonder
is that true,
the poet said.

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It's not that
you feel more,
it's that you
see more
that makes you
a poet,
the old monk said.

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You can lie
in interviews
but you can't
lie in your
notebooks,
the old monk
told the poet.

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Why am I bleeding
when I'm writing poetry,
the poet asked
the old monk.

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Towards the end
he thought just talking
was poetry
and poetry was
just talking,
the poet said
about the old monk.

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It's all everywhere,
the old monk noticed.

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When you get old
you can make it
any shape you want,
the old monk promised.

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What they get
depends on whether
they're paying me
by the word,
the old monk told
the poet.

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When it does
what you want it to
you never get over it,
the old monk said
with some satisfaction.

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If it doesn't
want to,
it won't --
that's how
it is,
the old monk
told the poet.

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I play all the notes
I can find,
the old monk
told the band.
It's not many.

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Where you find
your second chord
is where your song
is going,
the old monk told
the composer.

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It's not
how you count
it, it's how
you hear it,
the old monk
told the poet.

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Everything that is
always was --
it has just
changed form,
the old monk said.

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When you begin
to understand
it's as if the snow
is melting,
the old monk noted.

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Melody
wants its chords,
the old monk
told the band.

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You can play it
if the music's
in you,
the old monk said.

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If I hadn't learned
some of it younger,
I wouldn't be
this old,
the old monk suspected.

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The thing about
tricks is
the more you know
the more you can
learn,
the old monk said.

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You are just ants
if you don't look at it
from God's point of view,
the old monk said.
He didn't mean that
in any way
derogatory to
God or to ants.

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True stories are the best,
if you can tell them,
the old monk
told the poet.

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Sometimes
when I'm writing
it gets so meta
I wonder who's
writing me,
the old monk told
the poet.

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Google said the old monk
was the nom de plume
of some disgruntled poet,
the master reported.

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When two things
are side by side
in parallel universes,
that's when they sing,
the old monk told
the cosmologists, and
winked at the poet.

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Sometimes you get
what you want
but often
it's too late,
the old monk said.

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How many syllables
is a haiku?
How many lines
is an epic?
It doesn't matter
to the story,
the old monk told
the poet.

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You know, sometimes I think
I'm going to make it to the end,
the old monk told the master.

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You see either
blessings or
brimstone,
the old monk said,
and that's
what you get.

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Just when you think
you're wandering
the Arizona desert,
there's music,
the old monk said.

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If you write too much
you end up with
eyes like mine,
the old monk warned.

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Someone's
counting it
all up
and some day
what's fair
will be fair,
the old monk said.

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If you say
marvelous things
an an inopportune time
people might get
the wrong idea,
the old monk cautioned.

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If you want people
to remember your
words, they must be
monumental,
the old monk told
the poet.

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Sometimes it's good
just to be breathing,
the old monk said.

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If you have no ideas,
just write what you've heard,
the old monk told
the poet.

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What you want
may still be in
Italy when
you want it --
what then,
the old monk asked.
Some thought he was
speaking in code.

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You may notice,
if you read carefully,
I tend to use time
as a weapon
in my poems,
the old monk told
the poet. It was
a suggestion for
a thesis topic.

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How weird is it
before it's too weird
is what you want
to know,
the old monk said.

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Make your g
look like a girl
in a head-scarf,
the old monk told
the pupils.
The principal
was aghast.

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If it's a poem,
you can bang it
on your drum,
the old monk said.
If you can't,
it's not done.

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Sometimes it's paint,
and sometimes it's
the real thing,
the old monk cautioned.

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You always want to save space
for the after-thoughts,
the old monk said.
Believe me.

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You can hear
the electricity
if you listen,
the old monk noticed.

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The distance
always is,
the old monk said.

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You can't want
too much
of nothing,
the old monk told
his students.

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The moon tells
the old pines
its secrets,
the old monk noticed.

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Desire holds
its own sadness,
the old monk observed.

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