The dude with the green marble
Near the tractor shed at Rishimukh
stood a man with a dark green marble
He held the marble up in front of his right eye
and appeared to be looking through it
He held it there for quite some time,
and now and then he would turn to the left
or to the right
and look in another direction
for a while
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He put on a good show,
but nobody paid him much attention
Extremely unusual behavior
often attracted little or no attention in India
Everyone just walked on by
without giving him a second glance
And when the show appeared to be over,
the man held out his hand
in the hope of receiving a little money,
but again no one appeared very interested
in what he was doing,
so he moved along a bit
and then began to look
through the green marble again
After this attempt failed as well,
the man began to wander towards the guests’ rooms,
and he was then promptly given an escort
to the gate
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Did you see the dude with the green marble?
Yeah
I think he was trying to make us believe
that he’s some kind of sorcerer
He needs to work on his act a bit
Yeah
The gypsy women who came and danced last month
earned their reward
Yeah,
they weren’t bad the first time they came,
but a few mornings ago a couple of them showed up drunk
They asked for more money and offered to put on some sort of show,
but no one was interested in paying
two drunken old women to stumble around
The harmonium player yesterday wasn’t too bad
He wasn’t that good either
That’s true
He was a little good
Yeah
He comes by about once a year
to play the harmonium and sing a few songs
in exchange for a few hundred rupees
There’s no end
to the stream of people
who come to the farm in search of money
Yeah
They all seem to have missed
the real gems this place has to offer:
the silence,
the serenity
the love
This place is nourishing
Yeah
It’s time to water the flowers
And I need to prepare the fire
See you at chai time
See you then
And so the two friends began their work
while some birds were singing
Good Late Afternoon
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