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 The Bagel by David Ignatow 
						I stopped to pick up the bagelrolling away in the wind,
 annoyed with myself
 for having dropped it
 as if it were a portent.
 Faster and faster it rolled,
 with me running after it
 bent low, gritting my teeth,
 and I found myself doubled over
 and rolling down the street
 head over heels, one complete somersault
 after another like a bagel
 and strangely happy with myself.
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