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With his four dromedaries
Don Pedro Alfaroubeiro
Roamed the world and marvelled.
He did what I would like to do
if I had four dromedaries.
Guillaume Apollinaire, The Bestiary
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
I can see, on his roamings, Don Pedro
reaching a fork in the road
and pondering, while his quattro
of camels nibble at the hedgerow,
yellow, in the yellow wood.
But how does he ever get
a decision agreed by all?
How can he persuade the quartet
on which brave new course to set
to let them proceed at all?