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In this work, Hazo casts his eye back upon a career devoted to poetry. With works that are arranged loosely under the themes of love, family, and aging, this volume affirms Hazo’s status as one of the most compelling and enduring poets of his generation. Poems appearing in this collection include works which have appeared in the Hudson Review, Prairie Schooner, the New York Times, and the Saturday Review.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Further Reading, Copyright, Dedication, Quote, About the Author
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  1. Contents
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  1. Preface
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Lost Swimmer
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  1. I. Anticipating Yesterday, Remembering Tomorrow
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  1. Postscript to Many Letters
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  1. Carol of a Father
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  1. God and Man
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  1. Preface to a Poetry Reading
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  1. Bellbeat
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  1. My Roosevelt Coupé
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  1. The Torch of Blood
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  1. To a Bicyclist in France
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  1. To a Commencement of Scoundrels
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  1. No Echo in Judea
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  1. Splitting
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  1. Anticipating Yesterday, Remembering Tomorrow
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  1. The First and Only Sailing
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  1. Don Juan’s Dream of Near and Far Misses
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  1. Waiting for Zero
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  1. A City Made Sacred BecauseYour Son’s Grandfather Died in It
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  1. The Bearing
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  1. Only the New Branches Bloom
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  1. The Toys
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  1. The Next Time You Were There
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  1. The Silence at the Bottom of the Well
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  1. II. Silence Spoken Here
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  1. Maps for a Son Are Drawn as You Go
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  1. Silence Spoken Here
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  1. No Is the Father of Yes
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  1. The Quiet Proofs of Love
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  1. The First Sam Hazo at the Last
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  1. Song for the Flies of Fire
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  1. Florence by Proxy
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  1. Kak
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  1. Another Word for Time
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  1. No Fanfares, No Handshakes, No Salutes
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  1. Who Promised You Tomorrow?
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  1. Unto the Islands
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  1. The Real Reason for Going Is Not Just to Get There
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  1. A Crossing
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  1. The World That Lightning Makes
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  1. Whatever Happened to Defi ance?
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  1. To All My Mariners in One
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  1. Soldiers Despite Ourselves
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  1. Matador
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  1. To Stop and Be Stopped in Lourmarin
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  1. The Song of the Horse
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  1. Not Even Solomon . . .
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  1. III. The Most You Least Expect
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  1. For Bill
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  1. Understory
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  1. Putting Away the Lost Summer
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  1. The University of All Smiles
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  1. The Most You Least Expect
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  1. When Nothing’s Happening, Everything’s Happening
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  1. Scientia Non Est Virtus
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  1. While Walking on France
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  1. Cezanne’s Atelier near Aix
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  1. When Life Turns Still
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  1. Winston
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  1. Everything’s Important, Everything’s Brief
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  1. For Tomas, Who Survived the Axe Blow from Within
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  1. The Horizon at Our Feet
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  1. At the Site of the Memorial
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  1. The Bodies of Women
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  1. Once Upon a Wedding
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  1. The Holy Surprise of Right Now
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  1. Ahead of Time
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  1. Ballad of the Jolly Broker
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  1. September 11, 2001
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  1. Ballad of a Returnee
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  1. Dining with Montaigne
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  1. Facing the Lake with St.-Ex
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  1. Breakdown
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  1. Thus Spake Mercutio
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  1. Arms and the Word
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  1. IV. Ongoing PresencesHave No Past Tense
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  1. Just Words
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  1. Casanova to God
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  1. A Toast for the Likes of Two
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  1. Looking into a Tulip
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  1. After Arlington
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  1. Ballad of the One-Legged Marine
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  1. A Time of No Shadows
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  1. Ongoing Presences Have No Past Tense
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  1. Notre Dame du Lac
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  1. National Prayer Breakfast
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  1. The More We Know, the Less We Feel Until
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  1. Mustangs
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  1. In the Time of the Tumult of Nations
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  1. For Which It Stands
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  1. A Czech Susannah in Cannes
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  1. Towels
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  1. Mediterranean Update
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  1. Seesaws
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  1. The Necessary Brevity of Pleasures
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  1. Parting Shot
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  1. For the Time Being
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  1. The Real Wager
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  1. Caesarean
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  1. As a Rule
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  1. For the Dead, It’s Over
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  1. Morituri
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  1. Gloria
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  1. Skin-Deep Is Deep Enough
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  1. The World That Waits in Words
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  1. And the Time Is
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  1. Once, Again
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  1. Sudden or Slow but Sure
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  1. The Contrarians
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  1. V. The Short Life of Perpetuity
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  1. The Fifth Element
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  1. In Troth
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  1. Making It Look Easy
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  1. The Short Life of Perpetuity
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  1. Kennedy
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  1. The Fools of God
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  1. The Merchandiser’s Song
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  1. Sloth Is the Mother of Invention
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  1. Blossom
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  1. Welcome to Used-to-Was
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  1. Tattoos
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  1. The King of Swing
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  1. Say Cheese
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  1. Sleep Is a Dangerous Exile
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  1. Heredity’s a Card That’s Always Dealt Face Down
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  1. Eyes
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  1. A Preferable Nudity
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  1. The Art Professor Discusses Bernini’s Teresa in Ecstasy
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  1. The Time It Takes to Tell
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  1. Flagrante Delicto
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  1. The Face of Catherine Deneuve
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  1. Ophelia’s Lie
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  1. Sloth Is a Lost Art
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  1. No Words for This
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  1. Skunked
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  1. Executioner
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  1. Man Is the Only Animal Capable of Shame
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  1. Signs of Life in a Sundown City
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  1. Prior to Oblivion
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  1. Malaise
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  1. Ars Poetica
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  1. Poseidon and Others
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  1. Home Are the Sailors
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  1. VI. Deuce
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  1. Imperfectly Yours
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  1. Stoning
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  1. Life Preservers
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  1. For Those Who Will One Day Live Here
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  1. Benny Goodman Died WhilePlaying Mozart on His Clarinet
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  1. Footnote
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  1. Ballad of a Sniper
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  1. Choose
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  1. Beginning with Azaleas
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  1. All But the Haunting
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  1. The Habits of Perfection
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  1. Deuce
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  1. The Infi nite Sophistication of Human Needs
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  1. Nobody Home
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  1. Lifespans
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  1. That Far
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  1. To Richard Wilbur in Cummington
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  1. To Whom It Will Concern
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  1. Making Do
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  1. One-Liners or Less
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  1. At Large in Provence
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  1. Rites
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  1. VII. Bare-Wristed
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  1. Have a Nice Day
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  1. The Imperfectionist
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  1. Dressing Down
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  1. From the Feet Up
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  1. At My Age
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  1. Bare-Wristed
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  1. And the Winner Isn’t
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  1. Flyover
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  1. Downing a Maple
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  1. Meryl Streep, Actress
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  1. Happenstance
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  1. To Be in Byblos
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  1. In Due Course
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  1. To Adam
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  1. Joe Louis’s Daughter
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  1. Flair
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  1. Womankind
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  1. April Fool
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  1. Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There
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  1. Ace
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  1. The Poetry of Laughing, Yawning and Singing
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  1. Exits
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  1. The Driven Driver
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  1. Inconveniently Themselves
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  1. Ultimatum
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  1. Near Enough
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  1. Definitely
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