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read some poetry

Here are a few beloved poems:

For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet

by Joy Harjo

Learning to Adjust by Wendell Berry

At the store they gave me the wrong

package, but I took it home and decided

to live with it. Why complain? Why

upset the clerk or the manager? Besides

this package might be more than

I deserve. Look--it has a whole tangle

of ribbons around it and many greetings

and slogans. "Be happy." "Return to sender."

"Who is Terza McDonald?" "For you,

Pig Head." Your life already

has enough puzzles, and returning anything

just complicates the plot. A gift

is a gift. Just what you always wanted.