2024-06-16 National Fudge Day
【Little Song of Seville (Cancioncilla sevillana)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Dawn is awakening
In the orange grove.
The little golden bees
Are looking for honey.
&nbs
2024-06-16 International Day of Family Remittances
【Landscape (Paisaje)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
To Rita, Concha, Pepe and Carmencica
The mistaken afternoon
Dressed in cold.
Behind the windows,
2024-06-16 National Turkey Lovers' Day
【Clock Clear (Claro de reloj)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
I sat
In a clearing of time.
It was a haven
Of silence,
&n
2024-06-15 World Martini Day
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
The moon goes across the water.
How calm the sky is!
It slowly mows down
the old tremor of the river
&nb
2024-06-15 International Surfing Day
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
(Maybe it was because you hadn't mastered Geometry)
The lad was going blank.
It was ten in the morning.
His heart was
2024-06-15 World Juggling Day
【Died at Dawn (Murió Al Amanecer)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Four moon night
And a single tree,
With a single shadow
And a single bird.
2024-06-15 Nature Photography Day
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
The girl with the lovely face,
Goes, gathering olives.
The wind, that towering lover,
Takes her by the waist.
&n
2024-06-14 National Strawberry Shortcake Day
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
To be great, be whole: nothing that's you
Should you exaggerate or exclude.
In each thing, be all. Give all you are
In the least you ever do.
The whole moon, because it ride
2024-06-14 National Cucumber Day
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
Of the gardens of Adonis, Lydia, I love
Most of all those fugitive roses
That on the day they are born,
That very day, must also die.
Eternal, for them, the light of day:
&n
2024-06-14 National Bourbon Day
【Odes】
Ricardo Reis, Heteronym of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
Don't try to build in the space you suppose
Is future, Lydia, and don't promise yourself
Tomorrow. Quit hoping and be who you are
Today. You alone are your life.
Don'
2024-06-14 National Cucumber Day
【I Am A Shepherd (Sou um guardador de rebanhos)】
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
I am a shepherd.
The sheep are my thoughts
And all my thoughts and sensations.
I think with my eyes and ears,
My feet and hands
2024-06-13 National Seersucker Day
【Countless Lives Inhabit Us (Vivem em nós inómeros)】
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
Countless lives inhabit us.
I don't know, when I think or feel,
Who it is that thinks or feels.
&nb
2024-06-13 World Softball Day
【I Know, I Alone (Estar Sozinho)】
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
I know, I alone
How much it hurts, this heart
2024-06-13 National Weed Your Garden Day
【Every Day Without Joy Was Not Yours (Cada dia sem gozo n?o foi teu)】
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
Every day without joy was not yours
(The day you didn't enjoy wasn't yours):
You just had to stay with it. How much alive
Without enjoying it, you don't live.
&nb
2024-06-13 Saint Anthony Festival
【Like A Mist (Tenho em mim como uma bruma)】
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
I have in me like a mist
That nothing is or contains
Longing for nothing,
The desire for any good.
I'm wr
2024-06-12 National Loving Day
【Portuguese Sea (Mar Português)】
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
Oh salty sea, how much of your salt
Are tears of Portugal!
To get across you, how many mothers cried,
How many sons prayed in vain!
How many brides were never t
2024-06-11 National Corn on the Cob Day
【Crown Me with Roses (Coróname de rosas)】
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
Crown me with roses,
Crown me really
With roses -
Roses that burn out
2024-06-11 International Yarn Bombing Day
【Autopsychography (Autopsicographia)】
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
— Edwin Honig (Translator)
The poet is a faker. He
Fakes it so completely,
He even fakes he's suffering
&nbs
2024-06-11 National Making Life Beautiful Day
【When I did not have you (Quando eu n?o te tinha)】
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
When I did not have you
I loved Nature like a recluse as calm as Christ…
Now I love nature
Like a monk as calm as the Virgin Mary,
Religiously, in my own way, as before,
But in a different way by approaching life more.
2024-06-10 National Black Cow Day
【Silly Song (Canción tonta)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Mama,
I want to be made of silver.
Son,
&nbs
2024-06-10 National Herbs and Spices Day
【Guitar (La Guitarra)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
The weeping of the guitar
begins.
The goblets of dawn
are smashed.
&n
2024-06-09 National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day
【Desire (Deseo)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Only your hot heart,
and nothing more.
My Garden of Eden, a spot
&nb
2024-06-09 National Earl Day
【The Little Mute Boy (El ni?o mudo)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
The little boy looks for his voice.
(The king of the crickets had it.)
In a drop of water
the little boy was looking for his voice.
&
2024-06-09 National Donald Duck Day
【Before The Dawn (Murió Al Amanecer)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
But like love
the archers
are blind.
&n
2024-06-09 National Meal Prep Day
【Malagan (Malague?a)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Death
enters, and leaves,
the tavern.
Bl
2024-06-09 National Children's Day
【Every Song (Cada canción)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Every song
is the remains
of love.
&nb
2024-06-08 Best Friends Day
【Conch (Concha)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
To Natalia Jiménez
Somebody has given me a conch.
Inside, a sea map is singing.
My heart
fills with water
2024-06-08 World Oceans Day
【The Interrupted Concert (El concierto interrumpido)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
The cold and somnolent pause-mark
Of the crescent moon
Has broken the harmony
Of the deep night.
&n
2024-06-07 National Donut Day
【In Vain I Migrate】
Abdellatif La?bi (1942-Now)
I migrate in vain
In every city I drink the same coffee
and resign myself to the waiter's impassive face
The laughter of nearby tables
disturbs the evening's music
2024-06-06 National Yo-Yo Day
【My Mother's Language】
Abdellatif La?bi (1942-Now)
It's been twenty years since I last saw my mother
She starved herself to death
They say that each morning
she would pull her headscarf off
and strike the floor seven times
cursing the heavens and the Tyrant
&n
2024-06-06 National Fish & Chips Day
【Dish Of The Day】
Abdellatif La?bi (1942-Now)
For today's special
we'd like to recommend a very spicy
'killer' stew
The innkeeper
&n
2024-06-06 National Eyewear Day
【Fingerprints】
Abdellatif La?bi (1942-Now)
If we could write
simply by placing
fingerprints
&n
2024-06-06 D-Day for Normandy Landings
【I'm a child of this dreary century】
Abdellatif La?bi (1942-Now)
I'm a child of this dreary century
a child who never grew up
Doubts that set my tongue on fire
burned my w
2024-06-05 Global Running Day
【Sleepwalking Romance (Romance Sonámbulo)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Green, how I want you green.
Green wind. Green branches.
The ship out on the sea
and the horse on th
2024-08-05 National Start Over Day
【The Crazy Boy (El ni?o loco)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
I said: "Late"
But it wasn't like that.
The afternoon was something else
that had already gone away.
(And the light shrugged
&nb
2024-06-05 National Attitude Day
【Schematic Nocturne (Nocturno esquemático)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
The fennel, a serpent, and rushes.
Aroma, a sign, and penumbra.
Air, earth, and solitariness.
&n
2024-06-05 World Environment Day
【Song of the Rider (Canción de jinete)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Córdoba.
Distant and isolated.
Black nag, large moon,
&nb
2024-06-05 Festival of Popular Delusions Day
【Absent Soul (Alma ausente)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Neither the bull nor the fig tree knows you,
Neither the horses nor the ants in your house,
Neither the baby knows you nor the afternoon,
Because you have died forever.
Neither the back of the stone knows you
Nor the black
2024-06-04 National Cognac Day
【Dawn (La aurora)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Dawn in New York has
Four columns of mire
And a hurricane of black pigeons
Splashing in the putrid waters.
Dawn in New York groans
On enormous fire escapes
2024-06-03 National Leave the Office Early Day
【Hunter (Cazador)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
A tall pine forest!
Above it, four doves flying.
Four doves
2024-06-03 Love Conquers All Day
【Farewell (Despedida)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
If I die,
leave the balcony open.
The little boy is eating oranges.
&n
2024-06-03 National "Thank God It's Monday" Day
【Ditty of First Desire (Cancioncilla del primer deseo)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
In delicated green morning,
I will be a heart.
A heart.
2024-06-02 National Bubba Day
【The Grave and The Rose (La tombe dit à la rose)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
The grave said to the rose:
"With the tears that dawn sprinkles upon you
What do you make, flower of love?"
The rose said to the tomb:
"What do you make of
2024-06-02 National Rocky Road Day
【If My Verses Had The Wings (Si mes vers avaient des ailes)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Songs as sweet as summer brings,
To your flowery lawn should fly
If my verses had the wings—
&nb
2024-06-02 National Rotisserie Chicken Day
【Tomorrow at Dawn (Demain dès l'aube)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Tomorrow, at first dawn, when the country starts to whiten,
I will set out. You see, I know you’re waiting for me.
I will go by forest, I will go by mountain,
Away from you I can no longer remain.
I will walk with eyes fixed onto my thoughts,
2024-06-01 Don't Give Up The Ship Day
【Ticket Thrown Away Before Not Leaving (Biglietto lasciato prima di non andar via)】
Giorgio Caproni (1912—1990)
If I don't come home,
I want you to know that I never
left.
2024-05-31 National Smile Day
【The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man (1923)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
One's grand flights, one's Sunday baths,
One's tootings at the weddings of the soul
Occur as they occur. So bluish clouds
Occurred above the empty house and the leaves
2024-05-24 International Tiara Day
【Arrival at the Waldorf (1942)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Home from Guatemala, back at the Waldorf.
This arrival in the wild country of the soul,
All approaches gone, being completely there,
Where the wild poem is a substitute
For the woman one loves or ought to love,
&
2024-05-12 Mother's Day
【Earthy Anecdote (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Every time the bucks went clattering
Over Oklahoma
A firecat bristled in the way.
Wherever they went,
They went clattering,
&nb
2024-05-04 World Give Day
【Stars at Tallapoosa (1922)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The lines are straight and swift between the stars.
The night is not the cradle that they cry,
The criers, undulating the deep-oceaned phrase.
The lines are much too dark and much too sharp.
&n
2024-05-04 National Bird Day
【Invective Against Swans (1923)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks
And far beyond the discords of the wind.
A bronze rain from the sun descending marks
The death of summer, which that
2024-05-04 Kentucky Derby
【The Plot Against the Giant - Third Girl (1917)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Oh, la…le pauvre!
I shall run before him,
With a curious puffing.
He will bend his ear then.
I shall whisper
&nbs
2024-04-27 World Veterinary Day
【The Plot Against the Giant - First Girl (1917)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
When this yokel comes maundering,
whetting his hacker,
I shall run before him,
Diffusing the civilest odors
Out of geraniums and unsmelled flowers.
&n
2024-04-27 National Tell a Story Day
【Ploughing on Sunday (1919)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The white cock's tail
Tosses in the wind.
The turkey-cock's tail
&n
2024-04-27 Independent Bookstore Day
【The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage (1919)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
But not on a shell, she starts,
Archaic, for the sea.
But on the first-found weed
She scuds the glitters,
Noiselessly, like one more wave.
&nbs
2024-04-27 International Marconi Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Long-tailed ponies go nosing the pine-lands,
Ponies of Parisians shooting on the hill.
The wind blows. In the wind, the voices
Have shapes that are not yet fully themselves,
Are sounds blown by a blower into shapes,
&n
2024-04-27 Intl Design Day
【The Poems of Our Climate - III (1942)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
There would still remain the never-resting mind,
So that one would want to escape, come back
To what had been so long composed.
The imperfect is our paradise.
Note that,
2024-04-20 Volunteer Recognition Day
【The Poems of Our Climate - II (1942)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Say even that this complete simplicity
Stripped one of all one's torments, concealed
The evilly compounded, vital I
And made it fresh in a world of white,
2024-04-06 Jump Over Things Day
【The Poems of Our Climate - I (1942)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Clear water in a brilliant bowl,
Pink and white carnations. The light
In the room more like a snowy air,
Reflect
2024-04-06 International Firewalk Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
That the glass would melt in heat,
That the water would freeze in cold,
Shows that this object is merely a state,
One of many, between two poles. So,
In the metaphysical, there are these poles.
Here in the centre stands the glass. Light
&n
2024-04-06 National Handmade Day
【To the One of Fictive Music (1922)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Sister and mother and diviner love,
And of the sisterhood of the living dead
Most near, most clear, and of the clearest bloom,
And of the fragrant mothers the most dear
And queen, and of diviner love the day
And flame and summer and sweet f
2024-04-06 National Student-Athlete Day
【The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The time of year has grown indifferent.
Mildew of summer and the deepening snow
Are both alike in the routine I know:
I am too dumbly in my being pent.
2024-04-06 National Siamese Cat Day
【Tea at the Palaz of Hoon (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Not less because in purple I descended
The western day through what you called
The loneliest air, not less was I myself.
What was the ointment sprinkled on my beard?
What were the hym
2024-04-06 National Pajama Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The crows are flying above the foyer of summer.
The winds batter it. The water curls. The leaves
Return to their original illusion.
The sun stands like a Spaniard as he departs,
Stepping from the foyer of summer into that
Of the past, the rodomontadean emptiness.
Mother was afraid I should freeze in the Parisian hotels.
She had heard of the fate of an Argentine writer. At n
2024-04-06 National Tartan Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
It is hard to hear the north wind again,
And to watch the treetops, as they sway.
They sway, deeply and loudly, in an effort,
So much less than feeling, so much less than
2024-03-31 Easter Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
This is how the wind shifts:
Like the thoughts of an old human,
Who still thinks eagerly
And despairingly.
The wind shifts like this:
Like a h
2024-03-24 World Tuberculosis Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The sounds of rain on the roof
Are like the sound of doves.
It is long since there have been doves
On any house of mine.
&n
2024-03-10 Laetare Sunday (4th Sunday in Lent)
【Large Red Man Reading (1950)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
There were ghosts that returned to earth to hear his phrases,
As he sat there reading, aloud, the great blue tabulae.
They were those from the wilderness of stars that had expected more.
There were those that returned to hear him read from the poem of life,
Of the pans above the stove, the pots on the table, the tulips among them.
They were those that would have wept to step barefoot into re
2024-03-10 Pretzel Sunday
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Granted, we die for good.
Life, then, is largely a thing
Of happens to like, not should.
And that, too, granted, why
Do I happen to like red bush,
&nbs
2024-03-10 National Skirt Day
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-XII (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
A blue pigeon it is, that circles the blue sky,
On sidelong wing, around and round and round.
A white pigeon it is, that flutters to the ground,
Grown tired of flight. Like a dark rabbi, I
Observed, when young, the nature of mankind,
In lordly
2024-03-10 National Landline Telephone Day
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-XI (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
If sex were all, then every trembling hand
Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.
But note the unconscionable treachery of fate,
That makes us weep, laugh, grunt and groan, and shout
Doleful heroics, pinching gestures forth
&nb
2024-03-03 National I Want You to Be Happy Day
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-X (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The fops of fancy in their poems leave
Memorabilia of the mystic spouts,
Spontaneously watering their gritty soils.
I am a yeoman, as such fellows go.
&nbs
2024-02-25 Farewell to the God of Plague
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-IX (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
In verses wild with motion, full of din,
Loudened by cries, by clashes, quick and sure
As the deadly thought of men accomplishing
Their curious fates in war, come, celebrate
&nbs
2024-02-18 Thumb Appreciation Day
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-VIII (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Like a dull scholar, I behold, in love,
An ancient aspect touching a new mind.
It comes, it blooms, it bears its fruit and dies.
This trivial trope reveals a way of truth.
Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
2028-02-18 Pluto Day
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-VII (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The mules that angels ride come slowly down
The blazing passes, from beyond the sun.
Descensions of their tinkling bells arrive.
These muleteers are dainty of their way.
&nb
2024-02-18 National Crab Stuffed Flounder Day
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-VI (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
If men at forty will be painting lakes
The ephemeral blues must merge for them in one,
The basic slate, the universal hue.
There is a substance in us that prevails.
&n
2024-02-18 World Whale Day
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-V (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
In the high west there burns a furious star.
It is for fiery boys that star was set
And for sweet-smelling virgins close to them.
The measure of the intensity of love
Is
2024-02-18 The First Sunday of Lent
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-IV (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
This luscious and impeccable fruit of life
Falls, it appears, of its own weight to earth.
When you were Eve, its acrid juice was sweet,
Untasted, in its heavenly, orchard air.
An apple serves as well as any skull
&nb
2024-02-18 National Battery Day
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-III (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Is it for nothing, then, that old Chinese
Sat tittivating by their mountain pools
Or in the Yangtse studied out their beards?
I shall not play the flat historic scale.
2024-02-18 National Drink Wine Day
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-II (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
A red bird flies across the golden floor.
It is a red bird that seeks out his choir
Among the choirs of wind and wet and wing.
A torrent will fall from him when he finds.
Shall I uncrumple this much-crumpled thing?
&n
2024-02-18 Lunar Heaven Health Day
【Le Monocle de Mon Oncle-I (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
"Mother of heaven, regina of the clouds,
O sceptre of the sun, crown of the moon,
There is not nothing, no, no, never nothing,
Like the clashed edges of two words that kill."
&nbs
2024-02-16 Lunar Human Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Although you sit in a room that is gray,
Except for the silver
Of the straw-paper,
And pick
At your pale white gown;
Or lift one of the green beads
Of your necklace,
To let it fall;
Or gaze at your green fan
&
2024-02-13 Lunar Goat Bliss Day
【On the Manner of Addressing Clouds (1921)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Gloomy grammarians in golden gowns,
Meekly you keep the mortal rendezvous,
Eliciting the still sustaining pomps
Of speech which are like music so profound
2024-02-10 Lunar New Year
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
I am what is around me.
Women understand this.
One is not duchess
A hundr
2024-02-07 National Girls and Women in Sports Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Place-bound and time-bound in evening rain
And bound by a sound which does not change,
Except that it begins and ends,
Begins again and ends again—
2024-02-02 Groundhog Day
【Chaos in Motion and Not in Motion (1947)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Oh, that this lashing wind was something more
Than the spirit of Ludwig Richter …
The rain is pouring down. It is July.
There is lightning and the thickest thunder.
It is a spectacle. Scene 10 becomes 11,
I
2024-01-28 Natl Daisy Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
So summer comes in the end to these few stains
And the rust and rot of the door through which she went.
The house is empty. But here is where she sat
To comb her dewy hair, a touchless light,
Perplexed by its darker iridescences.
T
2024-01-28 Global Community Engagement Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The romance of the precise is not the elision
Of the tired romance of imprecision.
It is the ever-never-changing same,
An appearance of Again, the diva-dame.
—— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ?
2024-01-26 National Big Wig Day
【Debris of Life and Mind (1947)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
There is so little that is close and warm.
It is as if we were never children.
Sit in the room. It is true in the moonlight
That it is as if we had never been young.
We ought not to be awake. It is from this
That a
2024-01-23 National Handwriting Day
【The Good Man Has No Shape (1947)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Through centuries he lived in poverty.
God only was his only elegance.
Then generation by generation he grew
Stronger and freer, a little better off.
He lived each life because, if it was bad,
He said a good l
2024-01-20 Take a Walk Outdoors Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The sun, that brave man,
Comes through boughs that lie in wait,
That brave man.
Green and gloomy eyes
In dark forms of the g
2023-12-31 New Year's Eve
【Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu (1936)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
That would be waving and that would be crying,
Crying and shouting and meaning farewell,
Farewell in the eyes and farewell at the centre,
Just to stand still without moving a hand.
In a world without heaven to follow, the stops
Would be endings, m
2023-12-28 Holy Innocents Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Who can think of the sun costuming clouds
When all people are shaken
Or of night endazzled, proud,
When people awaken
And cry and cry for help?
2023-12-08 National Crossword Solvers Day
【Re-Statement of Romance (1935)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The night knows nothing of the chants of night.
It is what it is as I am what I am:
And in perceiving this I best perceive myself
And you. Only we two may interchange
Each in the
2023-12-08 Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
How mad would he have to be to say, "He beheld
An order and thereafter he belonged
To it"? He beheld the order of the northern sky.
But the beggar gazes on calamity
And thereafter he be
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Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The poem must resist the intelligence
Almost successfully. Illustration:
A brune figure in winter evening resists
Identity. The thing he
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Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
That strange flower, the sun,
Is just what you say.
Have it your way.
&nbs
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