11/10/12 Tanka

11/10/12, inspired by a marathon of lectures at the 2012 San Francisco International Conference on Chanoyu and Tea Culture

Eight hours surrounded
By esoteric knowledge
and learned scholars:
I'll lament my ignorance
Once I've digested it all.

Didn't the Master
say: one prepares the tea and
then one drinks the tea?
Would he be pleased or bemused
by such a pedantic fuss?