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Major Jackson is a poet and professor at Vanderbilt University. His most recent book is Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems. His 2002 collection Leaving Saturn was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
Once there was a boy who thought it a noble idea to lie down in the middle of the street and sleep. . . .
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