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Benedict FruitYonsiri Rojasthe goose hisses in its ivory crochet suit;sauntering the stoned road, a flinch of lightbathing the pigeon’s pearls, the town’s bruteanimal—its local needful, lazy pal mighthave carved off some of its benedict fruit.the goose grasps the pigeon’s winghums a ballad, makes a sorrowful scenedown the mountain, towards the spring“cut him some slack!”, swallows him clean;local conflict nicely solved, left neither a whing,nor the clumsy thief seen.

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