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Do you cook?
Have you taught yourself this skill?
Tomatoes and garlic and carrots,
Wine and oregano and rosemary:
What do these words mean to you?
Have you fought a friend and lost him?
Stand aside and watch two wills:
Do you see that one is your own?
Does something stand above your own comfort;
Something that stands on your shoulders?
Have you read Confessions?
Has Augustine ever crossed your mind?
Has the holy word from a world away
Lingered at the door, hoping to stay?
Asking for a past life, what will I find?
Do you abhor ancestors and embrace them?
Does the crossing of the Alps
Cause you to cross the street?
Scipio Africanus could be your father,
but I know he could not be you.
Do you ponder your heart’s trepidations?
Does the wind of the world find
Harmony at rest in your depth?
Have you felt a flutter within
And wondered, “What is sin?”
Have you fought a friend and lost him?
Have you read Confessions?
Do you abhor ancestors and embrace them?
Do you ponder your heart’s trepidations?
No? Then you must not cook.