Wednesday, March 03, 2010

have I a body?

Have I a body or have I none?
Am I who I am or am I not?
Pondering these questions,
I sit leaning against the cliff while the 
    years go by,
Till the green grass grows between my feet
And the red dust settles on my head,
And the men of the world, thinking me dead,
Come with offerings of wine and fruit
   to lay by my corpse.

-- Han-Shan, tr. by Burton Watson

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