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A black-on-white typed poem titled "How to Avoid Mixing Your Metaphors". It reads: "It's not rocket surgery. First, get all your ducks on the same page. After all, you can't make an omelette without breaking stride. Be sure to watch what you write with a fine-tuned comb. Check and re-check until the cows turn blue. It's as easy as falling off a piece of cake. Don't worry about opening up a whole hill of beans: you… Photo of a book page titled "A Franciscan Benediction" with red hand-drawn bracket lines in the corners. Text: "May God bless you with discomfort / At easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships / So that you may live deep within your heart. May God bless you with anger / At injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, / So that you may work for justice, freedom and peace. May God bless you with… A light gray band across a dark gray background holds centered black text: "The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves." A white poem card with a handwritten edit. The word "scream" is crossed out and the word "Vote" is written above it in thin hand-drawn letters. The poem reads: "so that one day a hundred years from now another sister will not have to dry her tears wondering where in history she lost her voice." Credit: "—jasmin kaur". Photo of an open book page. Heading: "THE SUN NEVER SAYS". Poem: "Even / After / All this time / The sun never says to the earth, / "You owe / Me." / Look / What happens / With a love like that, / It lights the / Whole / Sky." A small star ornament sits above the title.