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Brazil A friend of the writer is speaking	A
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Half squatter half tenant no rent	B
a sort of inheritance white	C
in your thirties now and supposed	D
to supply me with vegetables	E
but you don't or you won't or you can't	F
get the idea through your brain	G
the world's worst gardener since Cain	G
Titled above me your gardens	H
ravish my eyes You edge	I
the beds of silver cabbages	J
with red carnations and lettuces	J
mix with alyssum And then	K
umbrella ants arrive	L
or it rains for a solid week	M
and the whole thing's ruined again	K
and I buy you more pounds of seeds	J
imported guaranteed	N
and eventually you bring me	O
a mystic thee legged carrot	P
or a pumpkin quot bigger than the baby quot	P
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I watch you through the rain	G
trotting light on bare feet	P
up the steep paths you have made	P
or your father and grandfather made	P
all over my property	P
with your head and back inside	P
a sodden burlap bag	Q
and feel I can't endure it	P
another minute then	K
indoors beside the stove	R
keep on reading a book	S
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You steal my telephone wires	J
or someone does You starve	T
your horse and yourself	U
and your dogs and family	P
among endless variety	P
you eat boiled cabbage stalks	J
And once I yelled at you	V
so loud to hurry up	W
and fetch me those potatoes	J
your holey hat flew off	X
you jumped out of your clogs	J
leaving three objects arranged	P
in a triangle at my feet	P
as if you'd been a gardener	Y
in a fairy tale all this time	Z
and at the word quot potatoes quot	P
had vanished to take up your work	A2
of fairy prince somewhere	B2
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The strangest things happen to you	V
Your cows eats a quot poison grass quot	P
and drops dead on the spot	P
Nobody else's does	J
And then your father dies	J
a superior old man	C2
with a black plush hat and a moustache	D2
like a white spread eagled sea gull	E2
The family gathers but you	V
no you quot don't think he's dead	P
I look at him He's cold	P
They're burying him today	P
But you know I don't think he's dead quot	P
I give you money for the funeral	E2
and you go and hire a bus	J
for the delighted mourners	J
so I have to hand over some more	F2
and then have to hear you tell me	P
you pray for me every night	P
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And then you come again	K
sniffing and shivering	A
hat in hand with that wistful	E2
face like a child's fistful	E2
of bluets or white violets	J
improvident as the dawn	G2
and once more I provide	P
for a shot of penicillin	H2
down at the pharmacy or	F2
one more bottle of	I2
Electrical Baby Syrup	W
Or briskly you come to settle	E2
what we call our quot accounts quot	P
with two old copybooks	J
one with flowers on the cover	Y
the other with a camel	E2
immediate confusion	H2
You've left out decimal points	J
Your columns stagger	Y
honeycombed with zeros	J
You whisper conspiratorially	P
the numbers mount to millions	J
Account books They are Dream Books	J
in the kitchen we dream together	Y
how the meek shall inherit the earth	J2
or several acres of mine	K2
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With blue sugar bags on their heads	J
carrying your lunch	L2
your children scuttle by me	P
like little moles aboveground	P
or even crouch behind bushes	J
as if I were out to shoot them	M2
Impossible to make friends	J
though each will grab at once	J
for an orange or a piece of candy	P
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Twined in wisps of fog	N2
I see you all up there	B2
along with Formoso the donkey	P
who brays like a pump gone dry	O2
then suddenly stops	J
All just standing staring	A
off into fog and space	J
Or coming down at night	P
in silence except for hoofs	J
in dim moonlight the horse	J
or Formoso stumbling after	Y
Between us float a few	V
big soft pale blue	V
sluggish fireflies	J
the jellyfish of the air	B2
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Patch upon patch upon patch	P2
your wife keeps all of you covered	P
She has gone over and over	Y
forearmed is forewarned	P
your pair of bright blue pants	J
with white thread and these days	J
your limbs are draped in blueprints	J
You paint heaven knows why	O2
the outside of the crown	Q2
and brim of your straw hat	P
Perhaps to reflect the sun	H2
Or perhaps when you were small	R2
your mother said quot Manuelzinho	S2
one thing be sure you always	J
paint your straw hat quot	P
One was gold for a while	T2
but the gold wore off like plate	P
One was bright green Unkindly	T2
I called you Klorophyll Kid	P
My visitors thought it was funny	P
I apologize here and now	U2
You helpless foolish man	C2
I love you all I can	C2
I think Or I do	P
I take off my hat unpainted	P
and figurative to you	P
Again I promise to try	O2

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