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And then I thought
about, well, Uncle Ben

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hasn't come to me
yet, but I thought

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about the cream of wheat guy.

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You know him?

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This is a survey of
my food as a child.

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"Cream of Wheat"--

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"Sometimes at night, we
stroll the market aisles,

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Ben and Jemima and me.

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They walk in front,
humming this and that.

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I lag behind, trying to
remove my chef's cap,

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wondering what ever pictured
me then left me personless.

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Rastus-- I read in an old
paper that I was called Rastus,

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but no mother ever
gave that to her son.

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Toward dawn, we head back
to our shelves, our boxes,

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Ben and Jemima and me.

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We pose and smile.

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I simmer to myself,
'What is my name?'"

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