Picking Blackberries 101:
Do you know how fast a rock thinks? Move your hands at that speed, and no thorn can touch you. The thorn knows only how to rip fast flesh; against slow flesh, the thorn has no power. Work at the cadence of the thorn, and even the most sensitive skin is safe. Laugh at the barbed points! They cannot hurt you, no matter how often you touch them. Weave your hands, zen-like, through the bush, and pluck the berries, letting them fall into the basket of your palm.
Amidst the distant bleating of a goat, you stand, working, alone with fruit and sky, in the delirious minefield that you alone can traverse.
Now, you know. Please pick up your graduation certificate at the administrative office, and enter the real world, to apply your newfound knowledge.
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