If you have time by Nanao Sakaki

Written By Sharon Singer
 
If you have time to chatter 
Read books
If you have time to read 
Walk into mountain, desert and ocean 
If you have time to walk 
sing songs and dance 
If you have time to dance 
Sit quietly, you Happy Lucky Idiot

(1966 Kyoto)
~ from Break the Mirror: The Poems of Nanao Sakaki (North Point Press, San Francisco, 1987)
Sharon Singer
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