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AFTER IKKYU: 46 by JAMES HARRISON

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First Line: SOMETIMES A TOOTHPICK IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING
Last Line: THAT GROWS SHIT, NOT FRUIT. YOUR HIGH HORSE IS DEAD MEAT.
Sometimes a toothpick is the most important thing;
others, a roll of toilet paper. If you forget red wine
and garlic you'll become honky new-age incense
dressed in invisible taffeta. Eat meat or not,
try weighing your virtue on that bathroom scale
right after you crap and shower. You're just a tree
that grows shit, not fruit. Your high horse is dead meat.



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