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I'd like to read this poem.

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It's appropriate
perhaps to do so.

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It was written in Oracle.

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I spent a few days
there some time ago.

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It's a poem called The Brother.

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When morning came
I rose and made tea

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and sent off my brother.

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In the quiet house
I sat down to wait.

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The day knocked on my door
with its sack of where's.

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The evening looked
in my window with

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its inconsolable gray eyes.

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On the table the lamp was lit.

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My brother came home then,
white dust on his shoes

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and a tiny blue
flower in his cap

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weary as if it
danced a long time

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or met a girl in the fields.

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When I touched his
sleeve, my fingers

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brought away a fragrance
of mint and grass.

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Now my brother wants sleep
and moves foolishly at my bed.

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What I want is to wash his feet
and send him off again tomorrow

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with a stone in each shoe
and one for each hand

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and no bread in his pocket.

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