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                          Advice to Beginners
                            By:  Ellen Kort
                    (Submitted by:  Valencia Nelson)

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