Photo by Hello I'm Nik on Unsplash. Amanda Gorman, who delivered the 2021 inaugural poem at Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' Presidential inauguration, was the youngest ever inaugural poet, delivering a powerful and impactful poem. Look closely at the forsythia, just two days ago She has said, The purpose of the poem is to complete an act that cant be completed in real lifea statement that does suggest that there are both reality and the poem, which is then the completed dream. Enough is also an adverb . In Peter Schjeldahls New York Times Book Review review of her poetry in the 1970s, he refers to her anti-male rage and a pervasive unpleasantness, the kind of which might lend a male poet some mystique and power but in a woman could be seen as unseemly: One can only conclude that a number of people are angry enough at life to enjoy the sentimental and desolating resentment with which she writes about it. This is not just mid-century sexism; reading through her biography on the Poetry Foundations website, the Peter Schjeldahl review is quoted as if this anti-male rage which, according to the website is difficult to appreciate is a real thing and not a misogynist construct. Wakoskis poems focus on intensely personal experiences while at the same time inventing and incorporating personae from mythology and archetype; they often rely on digressions, on tangential wanderings through imagery and fantasy, to present ideas and themes. A fistful of poems about fatherhood by classic and contemporary poets. American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did. Reading through Wakoskis earliest poems like this from 1962 was a lovely coda to reading through her most recent, and I am grateful for the span and scope of her long career: and because the truth is trembling on the tip of every golden,green, purple, black, magenta stamenand even the wind touches it with its tongue, passing by,but I never do,and want to,but am forbidden.Is there anyone who understands?Surely one of you with all your iron maskscan throw the dice and just once let them come flower-side upso that I can hold a daffodil in my hand and smile. In The Queen of Night Walks Her Thin Dog, the speaker uses poetry, the singing that recurs in Whitmanesque lines, to penetrate the various veils that would separate her from houses, perhaps bodies, in the night. Wakoski poses a resolution, "Justice is / reason enough for anything ugly. """Your not wanting me to is reason enough.""". Newton, Robert. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. The mythology is, in turn, used to develop her themes: loss and acceptance, ugliness and beauty, loss of identity and the development of self. _______. Clever enough. Amid references to old arms and aching knees, to the feeling that No one listens to me. "What just is/Isn't always justice", as she writes. She brilliantly highlights the multiple faces of justice and the way it is served to people. "This Is Just To Say" by William Carlos Williams. DADDY WARBUCKS by ANNE SEXTON MERCY by LUCILLE CLIFTON Wakoski has always written notes to help the reader understand, not unlike what a lot of poets do at their own poetry readings, introducing each poem before it is read. In The George Washington Poems (1967), Wakoski addressed Washington as an archetypal figure. If you can make one heap of all your winnings. Oh blame life. WE LCOME TO ARIZONA POET BOB ATKINSON'S BLOG of Arizona Poetry. The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. There's only so far you can go before you say enough is enough. Indeed, this notion of parts is robust enough to make one wonder why reason, spirit, and appetite are parts at all, as opposed to three independent subjects. And she returns to David, her invented brother, at the other end of a lifetime, when she writes, in Bay of Angels: I myselfam looking for Davids footprintsin the soaked grass. Popularity of "Justice": Justice is written by Rita Joe, a respected poet and songwriter. As a whole, the poems continue the affirmative mood of Virtuoso Literature for Two and Four Hands. Although Wakoskis brother (from Justice is Reason Enough) is invented and Dickmans was a real person, the connection speaks loudly to Wakoski (Of course I always look for patterns, connections.), and she writes some of the strongest work in the book based on this shared grief. I Wish You Enough (I Wish You Enough Poem) At an airport I overheard a father and daughter in their last moments together. At the end of the poem, the speaker reaches out to touch the men/ with fire/ direct from the solar disk, but they betray their gifts by brooding and rejecting the hands proffered them. 4 God Created Mankind In His Own Image - Genesis 1:27. What begins as a conversation between the speaker and George becomes a masque, The Moon Loses Her Shoes, in which the actors are the stock figures of Wakoski mythology. Clarity is reason enough Poem by David Kavanagh Login | Join PoetrySoup. BOOKS. There is always light. 10 Greatest Sonnets Concerning Other Poets. It is remarkable enough to find sonnets, villanelles, couplets, and sestina coexisting in the same volume as surreal odes and aleatory "sonatinas"not to mention poems based on blues lyrics and nursery rhymes. I Am Enough. And not just to the eye. am I anything enough. Well, because she has resisted being folded into that movement. It is not Maxfields suicide that disturbs the speaker; she is concerned with his falling apart, the antithesis of his well-organized composing. The Rings of Saturn, with the symbolic piano and ring, and Medea the Sorceress, with its focus on mythology and woman as poet-visionary, reflect earlier poetry but also reflect the changing emphasis, the movement from emotion to intellect, while retaining the subjectivity, as well as the desire for fulfillment, beauty, and truth, that characterize the entire body of her work. Arizona Poetry reflects the multi-cultural heritage of the Southwestern section of North America. That's why it starts off with In just balloon man, or Injust balloon man. For Wakoski, the moon is the stereotypical image of the unfaithful woman, but it is also concrete woman breast-feeding her children, bathing, communicating with lovers, and menstruating. Two of Wakoski's favorite poems, "The Story of Richard Maxfield" and "Driving Gloves," which are included in this volume, involve people she resembles, one a dead composer and artist and one a Greek scholar with a failed father, but the poems conclude with affirmations about the future. Written in the aftermath of an epic breakup, The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems captured the early 70s zeitgeist. Diane Wakoski and the Language of Self. San Jose Studies 5 (Spring, 1979): 84-98. 10. The catalog then switches to the speakers physical liabilities, ones that render her unbeautiful and unloved; with the mask of a falcon, she has roamed the earth and observed the universal effect that beauty has on men. "When day comes, we step out of the shade of flame and unafraid. The book, Four Young Lady Poets, was published in 1962 and published by Amiri Baraka and Hettie Joness Totem Press. Among our female poetry heroes, I rarely hear Wakoskis name tossed about, and too many poets have barely heard of her. List: A poem that is made up of a list of items or events. Enough is also an adjective . [Poem] Imprint Berkeley, Calif., 1959. The title, In Just, forms 1 word; Injust. Truth teller, I am, she writes. In her intro to The Diamond Dog, Wakoski reveals some factual heartbreak from her youth that she could not speak of for years, including an unwanted pregnancy as a teenager, which ended with her giving her baby up for adoption. And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss: If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew. America may be a melting pot, but most American poets think of themselves as separate, different, and while very specially identified with some place in America or some set of cultural traditions, it is usually about the ways in which they discovered their differences from others and proudly celebrate them.. 4 (Summer, 1990): 292-294. Perhaps this cast of characters makes her books more difficult to fall into without having read the earlier books, but I suspect not. In this collection her identity is again developed in terms of lunar imagery, this time with reference to Diana, associated with the moon and the huntress, here of the sexual variety, and with the desert: both are lifeless, and both reflect the sterility of her life. Im a Westerner and/ not afraid/ of my shadow. The clich cleverly alludes to the shadow as the alter ego, her second, masculine self; the lover, it is implied, rejects his own wholeness. What, then, besides not aligning herself with the feminist or any movement, has kept her out of the 20th century canon? And justice is what is advantageous to the stronger, while injustice is to one's own profit and advantage." (344c) (5) In short, Thrasymachus believes that "the life of an unjust person is better than that of the just one." On her blog Wakoski has written of her lifetime meander to find a new measure through word patterning, through repetition, including chant and incantation, and through creating personal mythologies that function using trope that leads to revelation. And in her work The Blue Swan: An Essay on Music in Poetry Wakoski summed up the process of poetry writing: first comes the story. Am I too fat to matter I mean I had a whole eating disorder. I have given you my heart, and you stomp on it like a doormat. It's Not Fair Poems: Similar to "I Wish" poems, each line of the poem begins with "It's Not Fair" and the poem should be 8-10 lines long. Justice Quotes in Trifles. Heart-Shaped Box: LARB Poetry Valentine Edition. Wakoski has long been clear that the twin brother she refers to in the poem is imaginary, a character, a stand-in for how we wrestle with ourselves. Hughes, Gertrude Reif. Her collection Coins & Coffins (1962), the first of more than 60 published volumes, contains the poem "Justice Is Reason Enough," about the suicide of an imaginary twin brother. Noting that she, like her mother, wears driving gloves, she is terrified that she will be like her boring, unimaginative mother; Anne, like her unpublished novelist/father, is a bad driver. The Earliest English Poems Ever Written. Most people are able to recall little more than a phrase or line from the sought poem and the general period of their life when they read it (e.g., elementary school or high school), and then hope that our reference . Even ahead of her classic Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch there are paragraphs of explanation before the poem can begin. Now, may I request you to go through the Short Poems On Justice with different titles. The latter volume became the first part of a major Wakowski endeavor with the collective title The Archaeology of Movies and Books. I dont feel Im being slighted as a woman because instead of saying he or she I say he ), she comes off more cantankerous and contrary than thoughtfully feminist or anti-feminist. Smudging, another of Wakoskis favorite poems, encapsulates many of the themes as it probes the divided self. Then comes the telling and retelling of the story. / And it doesnt matter, to the harsh realities of a woman growing older in our youth-obsessed culture, Bay of Angels follows the clear line that runs from the poets earliest books forward. It is a phrase that means "a just or deserved outcome.". The missing lover is also the central figure of Discrepancies and Apparitions, which contains Follow That Stagecoach, a poem that Wakoski regards as one of her best and most representative. Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws. Diane Wakoski, (born August 3, 1937, Whittier, California, U.S.), American poet known for her personal verses that examine loss, pain, and sexual desire and that frequently reproduce incidents and fantasies from her own turbulent life. Our teeth, our eyes. The fourth woman in the chapbook is Diane Wakoski, who has managed, despite the odds, and despite the climate, to endure. The book closes with a section entitled, The Lady of Light Meets the Shadow Boy in which Wakoski writes I invented another hero recently She is speaking of a hockey player character newly appearing in her poems, but she could just as easily be speaking of the real-life Dickman. Moreover, as she writes in the introduction, All of the poems in this collection . It is the failure to choose, the unwillingness to give up one thing/ for another. Because the early parts were often published with other poems, they tend to reflect the same themesconcerns with parents, lovers, poetryand to be written in a similar style. 2 min read. Justice is an immediate pleasure and not an onerous one because it follows reason and wisdom that results in joy. The speaker in Running Men is left with the lesson the departing lover so gently taught in your kind final gesture,/ that stiff embrace. The sarcasm in gently and kind is not redeemed by her concluding statement that she lives in her head and that the only perfect bodies are in museums and in art. The poem "Justice" by Rita Joe is a powerful poem with a central theme of justice being like a child who is unpredictable and easily swayed. Although she has been occasionally mischaracterized as a confessional poet, she is not confessing; she has created a cast of characters that represent things she might confess. LARB returns with a sequel to its Poetry at the Olympics series, featuring poets from across America responding to the Winter Olympics at Sochi. ldquo;PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR AS RAOUL is what any valentine should be: foxy, dazzling, twisted, over-the-top, and smart-ass. Trifles Quotes. Sister Arts: On Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and Others. Often equating militancy and fatherhood and suggesting that it is the military that elicits American admiration, the speaker abruptly begins a digression about her father; yet the lengthy digression actually develops the father motif of the first verse-paragraph and examines the influence he has had on her life. Wakoski, Diane. The world has had enough, Two of Wakoskis favorite poems, The Story of Richard Maxfield and Driving Gloves, which are included in this volume, involve people she resembles, one a dead composer and artist and one a Greek scholar with a failed father, but the poems conclude with affirmations about the future. In The George Washington Poems Wakoski speaks to George Washington with various voicesas Martha Washington, as a bitter child whose father has left home, as a lover left behind in the Revolutionary War. The first verse-paragraph develops the idea that all fathers in Western civilization must have/ a military origin, that all authority figures have been the general at one time or other, and concludes with Washington, the rough military man, winning the hearts of his country. It is bound by a single theme, even if greed is defined in such general terms that it can encompass almost everything. Temperature about to fall. Mud. Only if we are brave enough to be it.". The speaker, who expresses her condition in images of isolation and entrapment, is fascinated with aggressive male roles, embodied in the motorcyclist. A baby in a stroller. The Los Angeles Review of Books is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and disseminating rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts. Unswayed by prejudice, thy mind. The Purple Rose of Cairo, Breathless, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer all make appearances here (and, yes, of course Wakoski is a Spike fan!). Justice is reason enough. I am from Virginia. In this poem (3 of Swordsfor dark men under the white moon in the Tarot sequence) the moon-woman can be both submissive and independent, while the sun-lover both gives her love and indulges in his militaristic-phallic sword play.. It can be any length . Justice (Noun)- the quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness: to uphold the justice of a cause. What is difficult about this adamant level of remove and we all have it, though not always so mapped out and rigid is that sometimes it feels deeply personal and sometimes it leaves us cold. From bell bottoms to body hatred, the poet remembers her youth and takes us through until the present, when aging is an unavoidable obsession. And, frankly, invisibility is just the harsh reality of women in the canon. To a longtime reader of Wakoskis work, her The Diamond Dog was a thrilling comeback, containing much of what I treasure in her poetry: the wild yet controlled chaos of uneven lines and stanzas, the vivid imagery, and the fact that she is: Yes, still angry, / despite the beauty., The Diamond Dog is more directly autobiographical than much of her prior work, and Wakoski prefaces the book with an essay on her belief in personal mythology. Anyone who is familiar with her work, and certainly anyone who has read her essays and interviews, or, likely, any current or former students, will have heard Wakoski speak of personal mythology. Jefferson, N.C.: Mc- Farland, 1987. "They say it was such afunny way to kill a man, rigging it all up like that.". Here it is, courtesy, Lynette. Bay of Angels follows closely on the heels of The Diamond Dog, Wakoskis 2010 collection, which was her first of entirely new work in over a decade. Wakoski insists on the physicality of the moon-woman who is related to the sun-lover, but who is also fiercely independent. In fact, the fashionable (always a negative word for Wakoski) body provides the point of contrast to affirm Wakoskis own beauty: Beauty is everywhere/ in contrasts and unities. This condemnation of thinness is extended to art and poetry in To the Thin and Elegant Woman Who Resides Inside of Alix Nelson. For Wakoski, fullness is all:Now is the time to love flesh. Renouncing the Weight Watchers and Vogue models of life and poetry, she argues for the unfettered fullness of American drama and the substantial narrative. Wakoski declares, My body is full of the juice of poetry, and concludes the poem with an amusing parody of the Lords Prayer, ending with Ah, men (surely the source of the false doctrine of beauty). October, 1918. There is also the issue of male dominance in Wakoskis worldview and her writing, which she has quite often attributed to the spotty presence, and then disappearance, of her father when she was a child. As a pragmatist, she has learned to live with these two worlds. When I read interviews shes given about feminism, about the male authority in her work, about her unwillingness to do the work of self-reflection (on why she uses the masculine pronoun: Ive said this in public a million times: grammar is grammar. Despite the opening curse, God damn it, and her acknowledgment that his leaving made her as miserable/ as an earthworm with no earth, she not only has crawled out of the ground, resurrecting herself, but also has learned to sing new songs, to write new poems. JUSTICE IS REASON ENOUGH, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poet's Biography First Line: He, who was once my brother, is dead by his own hand Last Line: Reason enough for anything ugly. This meaning can be applied to many aspects of life, including relationships and personal growth. Heavy the load we undergo, And our own hands prepare, The last poem in the volume, A Poem for My Thirty-second Birthday, provides a capsule summary of the speakers images, themes, and relationships. Because, like some of her master poems from earlier in her career, sometimes there are lines in Bay of Angels that are so unflinching and beautiful, they make me gasp: I have our mothers only / attractive physical trait, her premature, / extravagantly white hair, / and look my age, having grown ragbag soft and fat / from my sedentary bookish life.. Daniel Cameron. Long 3 Place 3 Previous 2 Open 2 Write 2 Moment 2 Wait 2 Slave 2 Reason 2 Broken 2 Poetic Justice . The Library of Congress receives hundreds of questions each year from people seeking help identifying the full text and authors of poems they read years if not decades ago. But it's not, there's evil lurking out there. Sexually abused me; She did-A few years back,-But I've already made peace with that. (2) Print Enough Is Enough Ilona M. Blake more by Ilona M. Blake Published by Family Friend Poems June 2019 with permission of the author. There has been a recent spotlight on the young adult fiction book Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. It's a prayer, an affirmation, wisdom that goes deeper than what you think about yourself. we have refused. The speaker reverts to her doberman behavior, and, though she persists in maintaining distance, she uses her poems and songs to achieve acceptance: I felt alive./ I was glad for my jade memories.. And hot showers, oh lovely, lovely hot showers. And now, in her newest book, we have the poet Matthew Dickman, to whom the whole final section of Bay of Angels is written for and inspired by. (Possession becomes the focus for the ongoing thirteen parts of Greed.) Below zero. There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'. Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Womens Poetry in America. Readers Digest. Womens Review of Books 18, no. 1.Why are symbols important in a poem? Another spoonful of crme brle, sweet burnt crust crackling. "Just enough" would be such a magical melody to hear, Falling flat in every hope, Verified with the truth of presence in this long standing fear. To begin with, she has often been in the thrall of the male figure she cites her influences as male poets almost exclusively: Stevens, Williams, Koch, and OHara among many others. The gaps I mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-time we find them there. I Wish Poems: Each line of the poem begins with the words "I Wish" and the poem should be 8-10 lines long. There are two parts of the speaker, the part that searches for the warmth of the smudge pot and the part of me that takes your hand confidently. That is, the speaker both believes that she has the warmth and fears that she lacks it. We've collected a few powerful poems about justice, and each one will make you see things in a new light and may even inspire you to take action. Her themes are dualistic and, significantly, susceptible to the resolution she achieves in the poem. An eloquent poem that expresses angst and remorse in a very brogue matter. Even 50 Shades of Gray finds its way in (insert groan or hell yeah! here). The Diamond Dog of the title is based on a nightmare Wakoski experienced as child, the memory of which follows her throughout her life and through the book. (4) "[I]njustice, if it is on a large enough scale, is stronger freer, and more masterly than justice. The resolution of the poem for the speaker is the movement from emotional concerns to intellectual ones, a movement reflected in the poetry-music analogy developed in part 13. 6 We Are God's Handiwork, Created In Christ Jesus To Do Good Works God Prepared In Advance for Us To Do - Ephesians 2:10. I will not hesitate--I need justice. Bibliography Brown, David M. Wakoskis The Fear of Fat Children. Explicator 48, no. Six thousand people bought one of these, assuming, reasonably enough, that it would be terrific. I have given you my youth and you took advantage of my un-experienced heart and played with my emotions. 7 I Am Enough Affirmations. To lace it around/ me like weaving cloth. Wakoski believes that once a poet has something to say, he or she finds the appropriate form in which to express this content. Justice. Across a world where all men grieve. Wakoski can be very hardline about this personal mythology business; she strongly believes that there is a right and wrong way to tell ones story. As ever, Wakoski has a knack for making transcendent her own self-loathing, for insisting that we look at what we may not want to see, and for letting no one, not even herself, off the hook. whence it came. Sure, many might bristle at Wakoskis refusal to classify herself as this or that on traditional terms, but, for me, discovering her work with no history or academy to bring to it, work which didnt hide rage or sexuality, which dared to have a female speaker call herself ugly, which was unafraid to call out its longing well, Wakoski is a feminist hero of mine, whether or not shed care for the term or the sentiment. Virtuoso Literature for Two and Four Hands, a relatively slender volume of poetry, not only alludes to Wakoskis fifteen years of piano study but also plays upon the keyboard- typewriter analogy to explore past relationships and her visionary life. Which isnt to say she grows dull or less interesting with time, but shes not bending with trend. We Can Be Heroes: The Winter Poetry Olympics Part V: On Skeleton and Skeletonists. JUSTICE. Though the setting is ostensibly the West, with the archetypal sheriff and Dry Gulch Hollow, the hollow quickly becomes a river; the speaker, a swimmer in a black rubber skin-diving suit; and the tough Western sheriff, a gay authority figure. To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you. In The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems, betrayal, always a theme in Wakoskis poetry, becomes the central focus; the motorcycle mechanic represents all the men who have betrayed her. Although the temporally complete Greed, all thirteen parts, was published in 1984, parts of it were printed as early as 1968, and Wakoski has often included the parts in other collections of her poetry. Of Wakoskis many volumes of poetry, The Magellanic Clouds is perhaps the most violent as the speaker plumbs the depth of her pain. the maintenance or administration of what is just by law, as by judicial or other proceedings: a court of justice. In Bay of Angels, Diane Wakoskis 23rd and most recent collection of poems, she continues with her career-long tropes and obsessions: love and betrayal, strong male figures and absent male figures, beauty and its shame-faced opposite. Writers Mindblock. In fact, quite a few of the poems in the book carry some kind of introduction, with the last section especially filled with them. These notes have long seemed controlling to me, as well as unnecessary. Is the "Right" to pursue happiness, treated like . This opening to life. Toward a New Poetry. am I confident. Accordingly, she avoids all fixed forms, definite rhythms, or organized image patterns in the drive to tell us the Whole Truth about herself, to be sincere.. Though often compared to Sylvia Plath, a comparison she destroys in part 9 of Greed, and often seen as squarely in the feminist mainstream, Wakoski remains a unique and intensely personal voice in American poetry. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Classic and contemporary poems of gratitude to send when youre feeling thankful. Here, too, there is less emphasis on the masculine sun imagery, though it appears, and more of a celebration of the moon imagery. When it comes to the politics, politicians, police or justice system it means that the lies can become the truth and because of that the judgment can turn it into an upside-down decision. Today was a good day. Wakoski's poems focus on intensely personal experiences while at the same time inventing and incorporating personae from mythology and archetype; they often rely on digressions, on tangential wanderings through imagery and fantasy, to present ideas and themes. Sometimes the structural layers and inventions are so thick, it is difficult to find our way into the emotional truth of the matter. If the book occasionally reads more prose-like than some of her earlier work, Wakoski aims to keep reader interest through her subjects: Watching La Femme Nikita, both film and / TV show, I found the closeted, violent enslavement / of all the characters / believable.. In this volume, she introduces the image of the lost lover, thereby creating her own personal mythology. Inside the Blood Factory, Wakoskis next major poetic work, also concerns George Washington and her absentee father, but in this volume, her range of subject matter is much wider. I wish it didn't hurt as much as it does, but no matter What i do, i still feel the constant pain, in my heart. The mix of mud and grass underneath is jarring. "That's just what Mr. Hale said. Arizona Poetry is reflective of how we became who we are, and how we look at where we are going. In fact, Wakoski uses chants, as in Chants/Chance, to allow for different speakers within the poem. Pope Pius XI 1 Copy Laws catch flies but let hornets go free. Whats more she seems constitutionally incapable of belonging to any group. The earth, warmed in the afternoons begins to smell of spring. Home Submit Poems Login Sign Up Member Home My Poems My Quotes My Profile & Settings My Inboxes My Outboxes Soup Mail Contests Poems Poets Famous Poems Famous Poets Dictionary Types of Poems Quotes Short Stories Articles Forum Blogs Poem of the Day New Poems Resources Syllable Counter Anthology Grammar Check Greeting Card . 1 (Fall, 2005): 14-21. In 2017 the filmmaker Jesseca Ynez Simmons released a docufantasy titled Emerald Ice, an imagistic and imaginative narrative using Wakoskis poetry and voice. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1980. He, who once was my brother, is dead by his own hand. The tone is at times humorous, so much so that the poems may not be taken seriously enough, but there is also a sense of desperation. 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