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38 Chiaroscuro with One Unrhymed Line You give and you take, like the ocean; you hurt then you give succour; you venture near the circle of light, then you disappear into shadows, a pall of wispy blue smoke from the tapped butt of a cigar. True today, untrue tomorrow; eyes turned down in your offerings of snacks and beer, turned up in the constant hullaballoo of your compound, where Aid and Domestic Workers mix; children and the elderly; dogs and fowls. You minister to the sick and the healthy, the enslaved and the free. Like Jesus, you give and you take away: light in my darkness; darkness in my day. . ...

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