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A Prodigal by Elizabeth Bishop - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry

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A Prodigal by Elizabeth Bishop - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry Edit Report Content Ignore User Add to New List Add to list Elizabeth Bishop Follow A Prodigal The brown enormous odor he lived by was too close, with its breathing and thick hair, for him to judge. The floor was rotten; the sty was plastered halfway up with glass-smooth dung. Light-lashed, self-righteous, above moving snouts, the pigs' eyes followed him, a cheerful stare- even to the sow that always ate her young- till, sickening, he leaned to scratch her head. But sometimes mornings after drinking bouts (he hid the pin

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