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  The Impulse
by Jan Best

He said
I spelled "rivoting" wrong-
It needed an "e" instead of an "o," and Lo! the
world would be right again! I picked up my

pen, rolling it in my
palm while the other words calm-
ly wormed under my hand shadow-
          a dove with a very sharp beak.


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