TIT FOR TAT - Raymond Carver Poems

 
 

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TIT FOR TAT
I often pass a gracious tree
    Whose name I can't identify,
But still I bow, in courtesy
    It waves a bough, in kind reply.

I do not know your name, O tree
    (Are you a hemlock or a pine?)
But why should that embarrass me?
    Quite probably you don't know mine.

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