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This is a poem for those
with very special tastes.

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It's called "Brown."

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"Black bread, brown
sugar, all year round.

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Top soil, obsidian, molasses.

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No white places,
breast or thigh.

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Oryza--" ancient word for rice.

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I guess that's the
Latin for rice, oryza.

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"Genmai--" Japanese word
for brown rice "--dark

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and mysterious grain."

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The word for brown
rice in Japanese,

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"genmai," means, literally,
dark, mysterious grain.

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"Okra and cod, eggplant
purple, heartwood red,

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bare feet, long hair,
sit on the floor.

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No meat, no underwear, smoky
brown bear, brown rice heads."

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[LAUGHTER]

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