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When the store was empty,
I sang “The man in one nineteen
takes his tea all alone”
while my boss
was in the backroom
doing who-knows-what.
He drank Diet Coke,
and I drank Vernor’s.
He ordered pizza when we sold
more software than the other stores.
He bought See’s Candy
at Christmas.
I baked a carrot cake for Jenny
when it was her first year married
and her husband [...]