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                       Advice to Beginners                                 [80C
                          by Ellen Kort                                    [80C
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           Begin.  Keep on beginning.  Nibble on everything.               [80C
           Take a hike.  Teach yourself to whistle.  Lie.                  [80C
           The older you get the more they'll want your stories.           [80C
           Make them up.  Talk to stones.  Short-out electric              [80C
           fences.  Swim with the sea turtle into the moon.  Learn         [80C
           how to die.  Eat moonshine pie.  Drink wild geranium            [80C
           tea.  Run naked in the rain.  Everything that happens           [80C
           will happen and none of us will be safe from it.                [80C
           Pull up anchors.  Sit close to the god of night.                [80C
           Lie still in a stream and breathe water.  Climb to the top      [80C
           of the highest tree until you come to the branch                [80C
           where the blue heron sleeps.  Eat poems for breakfast.          [80C
           Wear them on your forehead.  Lick the mountain's                [80C
           bare shoulder.  Measure the color of days                       [80C
           around your mother's death.  Put your hands                     [80C
           over your face and listen to what they tell you.                [80C
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           [NOTE:  Many thanks to Valencia Nelson for sharing this.]       [80C
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