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The silent man in mocha brown
Sprawls at the window-sill and gapes;
The waiter brings in oranges
Bananas figs and hothouse grapes;
The silent vertebrate in brown
Contracts and concentrates, withdraws;
>>>Rachel née Rabinovitch
Tears at the grapes with murderous paws;
--T. S. Eliot