"When words deceitful are employed as wraps for guile, They’re bubbles on the water, only last awhile, Such words are merely shell; the intent their kernel is, Or coloured portraiture of man; no life is his, A shell may often cover kernel of foul smell, A kernel sound can well afford to lose its shell."
Rumi

January 1, 1970

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