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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!TWNTKU10.BITNET!BAE03
  3. Message-ID: <LITERARY%93012104381567@UCF1VM.CC.UCF.EDU>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.literary
  5. Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:31:09 CST
  6. Sender:       Discussions about Literature <LITERARY@UCF1VM.BITNET>
  7. Comments:     Resent-From: frank stevenson <BAE03@TWNTKU10>
  8. Comments:     Originally-From: frank stevenson <BAE03@TWNTKU10>
  9. From:         frank stevenson <BAE03@TWNTKU10.BITNET>
  10. Subject:      2 more pomes
  11. Lines: 55
  12.  
  13. having vainly hoarded them for yrs...hoping against hope they'll be discovered
  14. centuries later (like emily's) in worm-eaten desk drawers, disheveled coatpocke
  15. ts...-----------------------Original message----------------------------
  16.                   in chuang-tzu's garden
  17.  
  18.  
  19.             we sat for tea
  20.             in his lacquer garden one day
  21.             chuang-tzu and i
  22.  
  23.             he caught a fish in his hand
  24.             out of the sky
  25.             and gave me, leaning close saying:
  26.  
  27.             "throw away the hand when
  28.              you've got the fish,
  29.              throw away word when you've got meaning."
  30.  
  31.              he threw up his hand & it was a bone
  32.              in a bird cage: "what do you wish?"
  33.              i asked for more tea and he asked back:
  34.  
  35.              "how to get
  36.               into cage without setting birds singing?"
  37.              i sipped in wonderment, holding my breath
  38.  
  39.               (or ming*-ing?)
  40.              wondering: or was it how to get out
  41.              of the cage (of life, of death)
  42.  
  43.               (or ming*-ing?)
  44.               (and then i was alone)
  45.              without stopping them?
  46.  
  47.        *original version has chinese characters: 1st ming (falling tone)
  48.         means "destiny" & 2nd ming (rising tone) means "enlightenment"....
  49.  
  50.  
  51.  
  52.                        parmenides in himalayas
  53.  
  54.  
  55.               which of 2 ways? (sits on rock, head in hands)
  56.               the 1, that thinkest must-be:
  57.                   logical analysis of meaning-particles
  58.                   split hair follicles of bound propositions
  59.                   as in "to know i believe i know
  60.                   that i'm in albuquerque (now)"
  61.  
  62.               the other, that only thinkest can(not) be
  63.                   (gosainkunda, the high hindu
  64.                    holy lake
  65.                    at 14,000 feet)        yet "is"
  66.                    or gelassenheit, releasement
  67.                    or suchness or the flowing hair of wind
  68.