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Chickpea
Legacy Name: Chickpea

The

Chibi Neela
Owner:

Rumi

Age: 13 years, 6 months, 6 days

Born: October 19th, 2010

Adopted: 12 years, 9 months, 3 days ago

Adopted: July 22nd, 2011

Statistics

Level: 28
Strength: 70
Defense: 62
Speed: 57
Health: 58
HP: 58/58
Intelligence: 11
Books Read: 10
Food Eaten: 4800
Job: Weapons Expert

About

Chickpea is willing to try just about any food, but he likes nothing better than a rich bean potage, washed down with a crisp saison.

Poem

CHICKPEA TO COOK
A chickpea leaps almost over the rim of the pot
where it's being boiled.

"Why are you doing this to me?"

The cook knocks him down with the ladle.

"Don't you try to jump out.
You think I'm torturing you.
I'm giving you flavor,
so you can mix with spices and rice
and be the lovely vitality of a human being.

Remember when you drank rain in the garden.
That was for this."

Grace first. Sexual pleasure,
then a boiling new life begins,
and the Friend has something good to eat.

Eventually the chickpea
will say to the cook,
"Boil me some more.
Hit me with the skimming spoon.
I can't do this by myself.

I'm like an elephant that dreams of gardens
back in Hindustan and doesn't pay attention
to his driver. You're my cook, my driver,
my way into existence. I love your cooking."

The cook says,
"I was once like you,
fresh from the ground. Then I boiled in time,
and boiled in the body, two fierce boilings.

My animal soul grew powerful.
I controlled it with practices,
and boiled some more, and boiled
once beyond that,
and became your teacher."
~Rumi