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Berket and the Stars

by William Carlos Williams

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A day on the boulevards chosen out of ten years of student poverty! One best day out of ten good ones. Berket in high spirits⁠—“Ha, oranges! Let’s have one!” And he made to snatch an orange from the vender’s cart.
Now so clever was the deception, so nicely timed to the full sweep of certain wave summits, that the rumor of the thing has come down through three generations⁠—which is relatively forever!

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