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The Ten Commandments

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The Ten Commandments

Jericho Brown

But I could be covetous¹. I could be a thief.

Could want and work for. Could wire and

Deceive. I thought to fool the moon into

A doubt. I did some doubting. Lord,

Forgive me. In New Orleans that winter,

I waited for a woman to find me shirtless

On her back porch. Why? She meant it

Rhetorically and hit me with open hands.

How many times can a woman say why

With her hands in the moonlight? I counted

Ten like light breaking hard on my head,

Ten rhetorical whys and half a moon. Half-

Nude, I let her light into me. I could be last

On a list of lovers Joe Adams would see,

And first to find his wife slapping the spit

Out of me. I could be sick and sullen². I could

Sulk and sigh. I could be a novel character

By E. Lynn Harris, but even he'd allow me

Some dignity. He loved black people too

Much to write about a wife whipping her rival

On a night people in Louisiana call cold.

He'd have Joe Adams run out back and pull

Her off of me. He wouldn't think I deserved it.

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1 covetous
adj.贪婪的，贪心的
参考例句：
She is envious of Jane's good looks and covetous of her car.她既忌妒简的美貌又垂涎她的汽车。 He raised his head,with a look of unrestrained greed in his covetous eyes.他抬起头来，贪婪的眼光露出馋涎欲滴的神情。

2 sullen
adj.愠怒的，闷闷不乐的，(天气等)阴沉的
参考例句：
He looked up at the sullen sky.他抬头看了一眼阴沉的天空。 Susan was sullen in the morning because she hadn't slept well.苏珊今天早上郁闷不乐，因为昨晚没睡好。