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 Ropz0     
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 kHGzl     
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。

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