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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Author: FULTON, ALICE Matches Found: 198 Fulton, Alice Poet's Biography 198 poems available by this author 603 WEST LIBERTY ST. First Line: They said here, take this == First Line: It might mean immersion, that sign Last Line: The white between the ink A LITTLE HEART TO HEART WITH THE HORIZON Poem Text First Line: Go figure--it's a knitting performance every day Last Line: Admitted. Go figure Subject(s): Nature A UNION HOUSE Poem Text First Line: A different chintz, plush as a blown-up hothouse Last Line: The phoenix' stitched in red across our breasts Subject(s): Home A.M.: THE HOPEFUL MONSTER First Line: So dawn. A morcellation of the dark, the one Last Line: What from the gut %the nerve emerges-- %step by step and sweat by sweat Subject(s): Nature ABOUT FACE Poem Text First Line: Because life's too short to blush, Last Line: Almost admire it. I almost wrote despise. Subject(s): Faces ABOUT FACE First Line: Because life's too short to blush Last Line: I almost admire it. I almost wrote despise ABOUT MUSIC FOR BONE AND MEMBRANE INSTRUMENT Poem Text First Line: Chords unfurling in arpeggio, that fragrance AFTER THE ANGELECTOMY Poem Text Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AGONIST OF THE ACCELERATION LANE First Line: I was a ho-hum tourist Last Line: Alive in the stretch %& the resting of sinews AGORAPHOBIA First Line: It takes six coats %of lipbalm to steady her Last Line: The air as if to shovel it aside, %as if to beckon ALL BLANKETS SHOULD BE WHITE First Line: A mild insulation. %grow old with white -- patience Last Line: To the heart -- which is not white ALL NIGHT SHIVERING First Line: It must have been the cruel age ANCHORS OF LIGHT First Line: Somewhere rabbits fatten exactly Last Line: Down the field like stones ANOTHER TROY Poem Text First Line: When the green island bridge, a scowling trigonometry Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Troy ANOTHER TROY First Line: When the green island bridge, a scowling trigonometry of over-wrought Subject(s): Troy ART THOU THE THING I WANTED First Line: These unprepossessing sunsets Last Line: From which we rise, towers %of blood and ignorance AUNT MADELYN AT THE WHITE SALE Poem Text First Line: Here is the kingdom of irregulars, Subject(s): Shopping AUNT MADELYN AT THE WHITE SALE First Line: Here is the kingdom of irregulars AVIATION Poem Text First Line: Nothing is lonelier than what's human: a group of them Subject(s): North, The AVIATION First Line: Nothing is lonelier than what's human: a group of them BABIES Poem Text First Line: Born gorgeous with nerves, with brains Last Line: The first time will ever do Subject(s): Play; Babies BABIES First Line: Born gorgeous with nerves, with brains Last Line: To be perfect %the first time will ever do Subject(s): Play BAD ACTOR First Line: My mother says he's a bad actor Last Line: Crescents on the windshield BANDIT'S BRIDE First Line: This propulsively entertaining novelette Last Line: And I've made that my law: the letter and the spirit BARELY COMPOSED Poem Text First Line: You are so not gold. Subject(s): Gold BEHAVIORAL GEOGRAPHY First Line: The constancy of rainbows -- or gypsum Last Line: Ecstasy has its reasons BETWEEN THE APPLE AND THE STARS First Line: By now we know %the portents: an apple falls Last Line: And die at ground %speed BLUE LAWS First Line: Sundays of diligent rain and that Last Line: Come in if you're beautiful, %my mother cried and cried BODY OPULENT First Line: Mr. Silver owned a steel plant BUNDLED-WELL-HUNG-UP-TIGHT-DON'T-PUT-THAT-IN-YOUR-MOUTH-IT'S First Line: They were always too long or too short Last Line: One clasp, unfasten, maybe %a buckle, a sash Variant Title(s): The Bundled-well-hung-up-tight-don't-put-that-in You BY HER OWN HAND Recitation Subject(s): Love CALL THE MAINLAND Poem Text First Line: Nature hates a choir. Have you noticed CASCADE EXPERIMENT First Line: Because faith creates its verification Last Line: Presuming your existence, let my glance be passional %towardthe universe and you Subject(s): Truth CASCADE EXPERIMENT: SHY ONE Poem Text First Line: Because faith creates its verification CHAIN LETTERS First Line: Dear lady, %you have been selected %simply follow these procedures Last Line: Will seek your narrow door; %african violets, haviland, your only collectibles %copy this ten times CHANCE MUSIC First Line: You must love me Last Line: While the virtuoso sleeps CHERRY BOMBS First Line: At five I knew at twelve Last Line: I thought about it %the rest of childhood, all day CLASSIFIED First Line: When I first see him, he is whipping Last Line: You know I know your name CONCERNING THINGS THAT CAN BE DOUBTED First Line: Uncle jim tried to sue the good samaritan Last Line: Paying doctors to cut off %all that flesh, that blood CUSP First Line: Sometimes when night turns me transparent Last Line: Beside that lighthouse without light CUTTING BED First Line: I've doused myself in citronella and gone out Last Line: Because she smelled like honeysuckle? DANCE SCRIPT WITH ELECTRIC BALLERINA Poem Text First Line: Here I am on this ledge again Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers DANCE SCRIPT WITH ELECTRIC BALLERINA First Line: Here I am on this ledge again Last Line: And even at a stand- %still, I'm dancing Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers DAYNIGHT, WITH MOUNTAINS TIED INSIDE Poem Text First Line: Chandelier too full of brilliance to be indolent. DAYS THROUGH STARCH AND BLUING Poem Text First Line: Mondays, sweating the flat smell Last Line: Of tonight's dinner. Tomorrow's pressing Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; Grandparents DAYS THROUGH STARCH AND BLUING First Line: Mondays, sweating the flat smell Subject(s): Laundry And Laundering DEATH OF BIRDS First Line: All birds are removers Last Line: By the soul %asleep in its beak DIAMOND SOLITAIRE First Line: Green shades grew down the panes like moss Last Line: Her blue sink. A trifle %hungry, that was it DIMINUENDO First Line: There is another sky Last Line: And the whole horizon goes DISORDER IS A MEASURE OF WARMTH First Line: In the window, frost forms cradles Last Line: Full of eccentricity and mission, %want to be like them DOING THE EVOLUTION SHUFFLE Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I feel I've shacked up Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations DRILLS First Line: It was one of those summer immersion courses Last Line: Where nothing had the right %to ever dwell again ECHO LOCATION First Line: Stop quivering Last Line: Resembles the bird it will fly into END FETISH: AN INDEX OF LAST LINES Poem Text First Line: A face stares back. EVERYONE KNOWS THE WORLD IS ENDING Poem Text Last Line: The coherent starlight Subject(s): Earth; Memory; Mothers; Judgment Day EVERYONE KNOWS THE WORLD IS ENDING Subject(s): Judgment Day EVERYTHING TO GO First Line: It's the dine-out drive-in Last Line: I'm a ghost, she says EXPENSE OF SPIRIT First Line: The credits and debits of cold sex Last Line: See: that's the dearest, cheapest prayer Subject(s): Dramatists; Lust; Poetry And Poets; Sex; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) FABLES FROM THE RANDOM First Line: As sun tugs the earth into an orbit FICTIONS OF THE FEMININE: QUASI-CARNAL CREATURES Poem Text First Line: Before work, I practice bo-peep put-offs under veils Last Line: Of glowing bones: the ultimate in / unpeeled flesh Subject(s): Burlesque; Waiters & Waitresses; Women; Striptease FICTIONS OF THE FEMININE: QUASI-CARNAL CREATURES First Line: Before work, I practice bo-peep put-offs under veils Last Line: Of glowing bones: the ultimate %in unpeeled flesh Subject(s): Burlesque; Waiters And Waitresses; Women FIERCE GIRL PLAYING HOPSCOTCH Poem Text First Line: You sway like a crane to the tunes of tossed stones. Subject(s): Girls; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements FIERCE GIRL PLAYING HOPSCOTCH First Line: You sway like a crane to the tunes of tossed stones FIX Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: There is no caring less Last Line: There is no caring less Subject(s): Love – Nature Of FIX Poem Text First Line: There is no caring less Subject(s): Universe FOR IN THEM THE VOID BECOMES ELOQUENT First Line: Dusting under nuptial covers Last Line: To vivisect the night with her bare hands FORCING WHITE LILACS First Line: First -- the cold %she being held Last Line: Her cries unwinding %from his ears FOREPLAY First Line: I'll entertain questions before the stellar estrus Last Line: The--not to mention, but I must-- %then some inbetween FORTUNES OF AUNT FRAN First Line: Whenever I chase the rushhour FRACTAL LANES First Line: Being menial, how can we let vastnesses strike through Last Line: Meager, too evident for credit -- that unreckoned -- breadth Subject(s): Perception FROM OUR MARY TO ME First Line: As a child, mary callahan admired Last Line: Only imagination, kicking like a worm in a jumping bean FUGITIVE First Line: Stars, though famous FUZZY FEELINGS First Line: Is beige a castrate of copper, pink, and taste Last Line: Right now I'm trying to open wide GILT CYMBAL BEHIND SAINTS First Line: Once halo meant a threshing floor Last Line: Spicks in the touch, the go, the form reform GIVE: SPLICE: A GROTESQUE First Line: From un-image, a form sexes itself to presence, gaining ground Last Line: Till now--I hear her asking me at last to %turn-her-loose GIVE: SUPERNAL First Line: Apollo pulls a cloud back like a foreskin Last Line: With no one to turn to-- %she turns to a tree GIVE: UNDOING First Line: Take: %her wish to be chaste. And exist in violent cloister Last Line: She would be neither-nor GONE YEARS First Line: Night pockets the house Last Line: With his long wool arms Subject(s): Family Life GREAT AUNTS OF MY CHILDHOOD First Line: Buns harden like pomanders Last Line: With harsh yellow soap Subject(s): Family Life HARDWARE First Line: I don't know how this silk-screened memory Last Line: Permanent press suits %to remove their suits of fire HOME FIRES, 1943 First Line: Your skin pearled to cirrus Last Line: A dove's and bathe him in it. %my breathtaker HOW TO SWING THOSE OBBLIGATOS AROUND First Line: He had shag hair and a boutique Last Line: I said how many years do you get %if they give you life ICE STORM First Line: It's a world stiff as a principle IMMERSION First Line: Let it be horizon levitating on horizon Last Line: I'd be all give. Let me put it like this== IN APPLEBLOSSOM TIME First Line: Mary never cared to bingo all night long Last Line: In no time. In no time no one IN THE BEGINNING First Line: The swimming teacher said, go with it, %it will hold Last Line: It can contain a shore INDUSTRIAL LACE Poem Text First Line: The city had such pretty clotheslines. Subject(s): City & Town Life INDUSTRIAL LACE First Line: The city had such pretty clotheslines Last Line: Their harsh done crust IT MIGHT MEAN IMMERSION, THAT SIGN Poem Text LIFE ABOVE THE PERMAFROST First Line: All winter the trees tossed in their coma Last Line: Enamored of the keynote, the tonic LINES ARE WOUND ON WOODEN BOBBINS, FORMERLY BONES First Line: A daughter like the openwork of lace==between %the raised motif Last Line: Of silk that's burned away with lye== %the bride LITTLE HEART TO HEART WITH THE HORIZON First Line: Go figure--it's a knitting performance every day Last Line: How it is made Subject(s): Nature LOSING IT First Line: You feel a hard-core blankness Last Line: Where you're headed, %the voice inside me said MAGISTRATE'S ESCAPE First Line: This was a man bivouacked in wool Subject(s): Art And Artists First Line: What they had in common went beyond the I'm-cool-are-you-cool handshakes Last Line: The scent of perforations as his relief rose above her %smokey field MARY STUDIES THE APPLE TREE First Line: Scanty, white as undies, she MEN'S STUDIES: ROMAN DE LA ROSE First Line: One inch can make the difference. This they know MY DIAMOND STUD Poem Text First Line: He'll be a former cat burglar Last Line: That wasn’t once alive Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life MY DIAMOND STUD First Line: He'll be a former cat burglar Last Line: Let anything touch him %that wasn't once alive Subject(s): Cities MY LAST TV CAMPAIGN: 1. ELVIS FROM THE WAIST UP First Line: Are you self of my self Last Line: Like egg whites beaten %to a nuptial lace MY LAST TV CAMPAIGN: 2. THE MISSING LINK First Line: I was dabbing on the afterbite Last Line: The talent - discovered in the rubbermaid %commercial - added stretch to every gesture MY LAST TV CAMPAIGN: 3. VOLUNTEERS First Line: But I remember best the radiance escaping Last Line: And shoved the cell %across the hostile centuries MY LAST TV CAMPAIGN: PASSPORT First Line: As an infant, I was kissed by valentino Last Line: Down an astral shaft- %to mask the screen in dumb expanse MY LAST TV CAMPAIGN: THE PROFIT IN THE SELL First Line: You know that existential twilight Last Line: Time and promises. They've made it %the white navel - I notice - in the o MY LAST TV CAMPAIGN: VANISHING CREAM First Line: Tv rules: it must be visual velcro Last Line: Gin goes down like water. But stir==strain== %add a twist==delicious MY LAST TV CAMPAIGN: WONDER BREAD Poem Text First Line: What eucharist of air and bland Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) MY LAST TV CAMPAIGN: WONDER BREAD First Line: What eucharist of air and bland Last Line: What - does not console? Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) MY SECOND MARRIAGE TO MY FIRST HUSBAND Poem Text First Line: We married for acceptance: to stall the nagging Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY SECOND MARRIAGE TO MY FIRST HUSBAND First Line: We married for acceptance: to stall the nagging NEEDFIRE, THIS LOW HEAVEN Poem Text First Line: Noticing a snow-filled shopping cart Last Line: The sockets of flowers Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives NEEDFIRE, THIS LOW HEAVEN First Line: Noticing a snow-filled shopping cart Last Line: Hums up, charging %the sockets of flowers Subject(s): Family Life NEW AFFLUENCE First Line: Let me say 'we' for I am not alone in this desire NEW OLD TESTAMENT First Line: Autumn's nubile drizzle polishes off the oaks Last Line: To intervene, who would have let the south secede, %hitler kill six million more NEW RELEASE First Line: A voice changed to a vinyl disc, a black larynx Last Line: And the record turns and turns into %the night NEWS OF THE OCCLUDED CYCLONE First Line: Night usually computes itself in stars NIGHT GOLD First Line: We stay up all night and like to NUGGET AND DUST Poem Text First Line: My father clipped coupons at the kitchen table Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters NUGGET AND DUST First Line: My father clipped coupons at the kitchen table OBSESSIONS Poem Text First Line: Steady as the heat Subject(s): Obsessions OBSESSIONS First Line: Steady as the heat Subject(s): Obsessions ON THE CHARMS OF ABSENTEE GARDENS First Line: Let's say the residents had other engagements. They've gone ORIENTATION DAY IN HADES First Line: It is not as expected. There is no drama ORNAMENTAL First Line: The weeping cherry must have suggested anguish Last Line: And we worship it. We drink it in ORTHODOX WALTZ First Line: Courtship, the seamless mesh Last Line: As refugees with jewels %tied to their thighs? OUR CALLING First Line: To birth shape from the spill Last Line: We call it loss of personnel OVERLORD First Line: During the staging and briefing Last Line: Marching up the causeway -- like they are %discarding something every step PALLADIUM PROCESS First Line: I, a cloud PERIPHERAL VISION First Line: The window's a slow-moving liquid PERPETUAL LIGHT First Line: These gates are forever open Last Line: Mere twinges in their unimaginable limbs PICTURE PLANES 2. HIS ACID GLORY First Line: Painting to a contract's explicit Last Line: And all his acid saints %are shaped like sharks PICTURE PLANES 3. PAINTING MASTERPIECES: A FISH STORY First Line: My reputation is undisputed Last Line: Dripping from her sides like fringe PICTURE PLANES 4. HOLDING IN A WORLD First Line: All maps self-distort with the strain Last Line: Beams, that black halo is a sting-%ray's tail coiled but unc PICTURE PLANES L. IMPOSITIONS ON THE THIRD DIMENSION First Line: Long strips of curried animal %skin beaded in intricate Last Line: To wander, they leave cowed %monsters, fleeced seraphim PIVOTAL KINGDOM First Line: A head capsized the wild mechanism of may Last Line: Fraught with once and future %euphorias, with wars PLUMBLINE Poem Text First Line: The world could snore, wrangle or tear Subject(s): Fathers PLUMBLINE First Line: The world could snore, wrangle, or tear POINT OF PURCHASE First Line: How god and billiards originated Last Line: To make my vision manifest in them POWERS OF CONGRESS Poem Text First Line: How the lightstruck trees change sun Subject(s): Modern Life; United States - Congress POWERS OF CONGRESS First Line: How the lightstruck trees change sun Last Line: Their twin beds slept in, changed, made Subject(s): Life, Modern; U.s. - Congress PRIMING IS A NEGLIGEE Last Line: The oils are suspended %on a leading. The lovers %touch in linen walls PRIVATE SECTOR First Line: Maybe the afterlife's like august 6, 1959 Last Line: And dread, the sparked %cargo, who must rebel, expect REELING BACK THE SAFFRON First Line: Heat incubates: memories hatch Last Line: Carp ground their teeth under %easy, opaque waves RISK MANAGEMENT Poem Text First Line: Relentless escalators bore us Last Line: Before they're caught Subject(s): Cities; Conventions; Urban Life RISK MANAGEMENT First Line: Relentless escalators bore us Last Line: That soar, catch the light and twirl %before they're caught Subject(s): Cities ROMANCE IN THE DARK First Line: The other, a nebula Last Line: I need the chiaroscuro %of another to help me see tomorrow ROSE FEVER First Line: Believing even an infant's primrose Last Line: Before the retina sounds %its blue alert SCUMBLING First Line: Absolved, face to the wall, alive only SECOND-SIGHT First Line: If I could fire a song so strong men cut themselves Last Line: Tongue quickening the night SELF-STORAGE Poem Text First Line: Doesn't that feel great? Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Family Life; Relatives SELF-STORAGE First Line: Doesn't this feel great' Last Line: Ripping in its own good time SEMAPHORES AND HEMISPHERES First Line: We take these days in the name of not-to-worry SILENCER First Line: When snow soothes the view, it doesn't pay to reason Last Line: Reason against the gusts of blank repose %within their sets and make their blizzard babies SISTER MADELEINE PLEADS FOR OUR MARY First Line: Dear sister immaculata SKETCH First Line: Before the blank--full of fresh Last Line: To confiscate the shifting give %and represent the with- %out which SMALL OBJECTS WITHIN REACH First Line: It fell to him: a slip Last Line: Growing on foreclosures, little spiders %spinning water overdistant lawn SNOW-KILN First Line: The skin prickles, outraged as a cactus Last Line: Steeped in drifts %of sleep SOME COOL First Line: Animals are the latest decorating craze Last Line: And never feel a thing SOUTHBOUND IN A NORTHBOUND LANE Poem Text First Line: Her anatomically-correct smile SOUTHBOUND IN A NORTHBOUND LANE First Line: Her anatomically-correct smile Last Line: And fact the harsh music %that is space STEREO (TREE) First Line: A sea-pen, these mirrors, the lively gray Last Line: Who could bear to save her SYMPATHETIC HEXES First Line: I've watched as one woman, adrift Last Line: On the redeemable dreams %of the dumbluck crowd TAKE A ROMAN WEDDING First Line: It was lit at the bride's hearth while she played Last Line: Are entirely free %of nettles TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM First Line: Stars threatened you into feeling THE BODY OPULENT Poem Text First Line: Mr. Silver owned a steel plant THE EXPENSE OF SPIRIT Poem Text First Line: The credits and debits of cold sex Last Line: See: that's the dearest, cheapest prayer Subject(s): Dramatists; Lust; Poetry & Poets; Sex; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) THE FRACTAL LANES Poem Text First Line: Being menial, how can we let vastnesses strike through Last Line: Meager, too evident for credit – that unreckoned – breath Subject(s): Perception THE GONE YEARS Poem Text First Line: Night pockets the house Last Line: Swith his long wool arms Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE GREAT AUNTS OF MY CHILDHOOD Poem Text First Line: Buns harden like pomanders Last Line: With harsh yellow soap Subject(s): Family Life; Aunts; Relatives THE WRECKAGE ENTREPRENEUR First Line: It takes faith - this tripping through the mixed bessings Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS NEED First Line: People become as liquid Last Line: A sliver at the bottom of a solvent sleep TOWARD CLAIRVOYANCE First Line: You hold all our home truths, nil-colored one Last Line: Waiting to be %round TRAINING THE GIRL'S CHANGING VOICE First Line: Maybe it was chanting 'directory assistance', for what Last Line: I can't move--I have no way-- %please hold--to make connections.' TRAVELING LIGHT Poem Text First Line: Every restaurant boarded up in softwood Subject(s): Fathers - Death TRAVELING LIGHT First Line: Every restaurant boarded up in softwood TRESPASS First Line: Warmly sorrel as a guernsey, a wall Last Line: Paraclete. What farm wives poured on their preserves TROPHIES First Line: Over stiff blossoms of cocktails, firm studs of leathered de Last Line: Like children, they cry I won, I won! TROUBLE IN MIND Poem Text First Line: A murdered body's shallow grave Subject(s): Memory; War TROUBLE IN MIND Poem Text First Line: A murdered body's shallow grave Subject(s): War TROUBLE IN MIND First Line: A murdered body's shallow grave Last Line: A jungle of nothing. A forgetting Subject(s): War TURN: A VERSION (TREE) First Line: She'll get out of this one somehow. Someday she'll break Last Line: Down the air, the blank, the optical until %a face stares back TWO CRIES & A CLUTCH First Line: This boy like me once Last Line: We didn't speak to strangers then UNION HOUSE First Line: A different chintz, plush as a blown-up hothouse Last Line: The phoenix: stitched in red across our breasts UNWANTING First Line: Unabridged autumn--fauve trees and flowers snarled Last Line: The exdream==the world gone into god again? UNWANTING; LAURA FULTON CARPENTER, 1969-1990 First Line: As the waves grew ample in the outer mantle Last Line: The exdream--the world gone into god again? Subject(s): Death WELL, PAIN'S WILDWOOD LOOKS REFINED First Line: A decorous everglades. And ill WHAT I LIKE Poem Text First Line: Friend - the face I wallow toward Subject(s): Likes And Dslikes WHAT I LIKE First Line: Friend -- the face I wallow toward Last Line: Labeled hers or his: what I like about you is WHEN BOSSES SANK STEEL HANDS First Line: In the north sea, I was issued this survival WHERE ARE THE STARS PRISTINE Poem Text First Line: Everyone's spending christmas eve adrift WHERE ARE THE STARS PRISTINE First Line: Everyone's spending christmas eve adrift WORKS ON PAPER First Line: A thrilling wilderness of biomorphic WOW MOMENT Poem Text First Line: From the guts of the house, I hear my mother crying WRECKAGE ENTREPRENEUR First Line: It takes faith - this tripping through the mixed bessings Last Line: Nakedness. How small she looks %beside what she has saved Subject(s): Cities YOU CAN'T RHUMBOOGIE IN A BALL AND CHAIN Poem Text First Line: You called the blues' loose black belly lover Last Line: "“it’s your shade, this blood dress,” we say. “it’s you." Subject(s): Jazz; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music & Musicians YOU CAN'T RHUMBOOGIE IN A BALL AND CHAIN First Line: You called the blues' loose black belly lover Last Line: It's your shade, this blood dress,' we say. 'it's you.' Subject(s): Jazz; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music And Musicians YOUR CARD READ POET-MECHANIC First Line: The day you came -- carrying a two-cylinder Last Line: Is in the bathroom %humming be-bop-a-lula YOURS & MINE First Line: Through your lens the sequoia swallowed me Last Line: Graininess that weaves expressively: your face |
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