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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
Carl Sandburg
Agreed
Brooks
Corner
Editors
Later
Letters
Off
Poems
Read
Rejected
Rejection
Right
Sent
Station
Street
Them
Those
Two
Who
Wrote
Years
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