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i thank You
somewhere i have never travelled
in Just-

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Misterioso

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Formaggio

Jane Kenyon:
Happiness
Otherwise
Learning in the First Grade

Bukowski:
One for old snaggletooth
i met a genius
the worst and the best

Nikki Giovanni:
Photography

Mary Oliver:
Mindful

Leonard Cohen:
Interview

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Middlemarch

Margaret Atwood:
Sleep

Borges:
Ajedrez
La escritura del dios

Rebecca Seiferle:
Seraphim

ntozake shange:
no assistance

Pablo Neruda:
Book of Questions XIV

Billy Collins:
Litany

Nora Ephron:
Remarks to Wellesley College Class of 1996

Arundhati Roy:
Buy One, Get One Free

George Packer:
The Way We Live Now

Carl Mayer:
The pile theory


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ee cummings - in Just

in Just-
spring  when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman

whistles        far     and wee

and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it’s
spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

the queer
old balloonman whistles
far     and     wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

it’s
spring
and
   the
         goat-footed

ballonMan       whistles
far
and
wee