Advice from a Persian Poet

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Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins
that may buy you just a moment of pleasure

but then drag you for days like a broken
man behind a farting camel.

— from A Year with Hafiz, Daily Contemplations.

Translated / rendered by Daniel Ladinsky

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