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"Come on", said the donkey to the rooster, "Something better than dead you'll find everywhere."
--From the fairytale "The Musicians of Bremen" by the Bros. Grimm.

I'm throwing small pebbles at your window
But you don't open it.
I know that you're at home, you haven't left the house for hours now.
You don't call me up, and when I try to call you up, you hang up.
Sometimes, I had your mother on the phone, but she said you're not at home.
That's a lie!
When we meet by chance on the street, you act like a stranger and walk on by without a word.
You didn't congratulate me on my birthday.
You say malicious things behind my back, you agitate other people against me.
You have changed, since you know IT.
When I told you about IT, you left my room without saying good-bye.
We've known each other since we were kids, we were friends, we understood each other.
What's different now?
I'm throwing another small pebble at your window
But it's still dark beyond it.
No answer.
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