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There are two opposite approaches to existence (fill in your suggestions.)
Either one of these approaches works--fifty percent of the time. Take your
choice.
This a a deeply ironic comment on the predictament
we find ourselves in--forced, seemingly to choose an
identity. What the poem doesn't bring up is the possibility of freedom
from any one-sided identity--such as is taught in Zen Buddhism.
linshanghsiang from United States