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Traveler

You who go through rice paddies in the rain,
you who hurry toward leviathan woods,
you who walk into the gloom of clouds and mountains,
fasten up your raincoat, damn it.

Epigram

You were a pretty boy once, Archestratus, and
young men burned for your wine-rosy cheeks;
you had no time for me then, on the game with those
who took your bloom away. Now bristly and black
you push your friendship in my face, holding out
straw after others have got your harvest.