See, Nasrudin sits eating
dates…
Oh, but do you see?
Nasrudin eats the seeds too…
O Nasrudin, Nasrudin
why do you eat the seeds as
you eat the dates?
O, says Nasrudin,
because the merchant who sold me the dates
also charged me for the seeds
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