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Life is a Noun
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Auroric placenta spins in the heavens, the Life Force spits out the Black Magellanic Cloud
and already born in this matter;
the Irv's Breast o/Chicken sandwich at Santa Monica & Sweetzer
Picwood Bowl scorekeeping pencils that say "LET'S GO BOWLING"
rheumatic fever germs will weaken Irving Thalberg's heart so he'll die in 1936
a Martin's Milk bottle I'll fall on wearing plastic roller skates Paul Soorenko gave me & four
stitches for my palm
microchips will store 124 bits of Information
a Braille typewriter I'll learn to use to take letters for Shirley Trexler
59B trackless trolley I'll jump out the window of in 1969 almost killing myself with a concussion
glow in the dark paint to put allover my room on Arnold St.
50's Oriental drapes I'll find in a Baltimore thriftshop w/Abbe
Hurricane Betsy to swipe the British West Indies
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedekar who will plead the case of the Untouchables
Titanium, Play-Doh, Astro Turf, Superballs, Dentyne, calomine, iodine, Dramamine,
Feenamints, Velcro, Nutra-Sweet,
a steam valve my great grandfather Epstein will invent and sell for a pittance to make the Nylon
industry
Lucite, asphalt, Aspergum, Show Biz, Honolulu, tungsten, shoo-fly pie, Beefeater martinis
I'll drink withe Mayor of Meridian, Mississippi
that million dollar Space Toilet NASA will build in 1980
the chicken , the egg, the egg, the chicken, chicken, egg, egg, chicken, egg
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Air
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sweaty sweet jazz air through Louis Armstrong's trumpet on When It's Sleepy Time Down South
pickle brine roast beef air in Nate's Deli, Bell's Corner
medicated breathing machine air in my grandmother's apt.
steel mill smokestack over Harris' trailer Pittsburgh
fireplace air of a Connecticut Xmas at Mady's
nauseating refinery air on the 1-95 toward Ph illy airport
old car interior leather cigarette air
roofer'S tar air down La Brea after the first heavy rains
steam radiator air in Aunt Rose's bedroom Carver Hall (that place burned down)
artificial chocolate empty Raisinets box movie horn air
metal pipe sculpting clay air Uncle Natey's den
old dog air Alan Oswald's house
"banana air from the dry cleaners"
SEARS hardware dept. air smells like fingernails
spaghetti w/clam sauce in Edith's kitchen 4th of July
9000 Sunset air conditioned entertainment world air
Malathion air over Silverlake
burnt onion air from Mrs. Krause's kitchen window (I know It 's five o'clock)
high-level radioactive air secreted at Three Mile Island
snap crackle pop air over a bowl of Rice Krispies
crematory air over Dachau & Buchenwald early 40's mornings
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Substances
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a pinpoint of God's Plutonium will snuff me out
tons produced each year as Nuclear Byproduct . , .
chunk of black coal from Kentucky my Aunt Helen gave it to me It s a paperweight now
Carcinogenic elementary school asbestos filings
unsolved Tylenol cyanide Girl Scout cookie needles .
engagement rings, naphtha, zirconium, coral , benzedrine,
coca leaves of the Cosa Nostra
slate slabs of Egyptian slaves ...
all night dexedrine pink footballs to travel I-40's concrete glide to CA Christmas vacation w/Tom
1976
food coloring to make the multi-colored "Disco-Grits" I ate in Selma, Alabama
Nature's laetrile in Edgar Cayce's three almonds per day
peach pits to make World War II 's gas mask filters
Kool-Aid, bauxite, estrogen, filament, Oxydol, DDT,
Halley's Comet universe particles February 9, 1986
Reagan's vegetable ketchup of school lunchrooms
gypsum, hollandaise, Coppertone, '
Lebanon baloney and Velveeta in a waxed paper bag .
Burce Comley will bring to school every day In Junior high
permanent eyeliner for Palm Springs implants
neo-plastic ventricles for Schroeder's heart
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Machines
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" Jaws of Life" super car crash scissors of Freeway Paramedics one day get me?
talking soda pop dispensers of Japan soon USA
my family was in the 1964 Test Group of the Touch Tone Phone
laser eye surgery machines of Cedars Sinai . ,
bubble machines of the Lawrence Welk show I saw taped In 82
flying machine Sally Ride ate jelly beans in
color TV round the world machines for instant coverage o/same
wrecking ball to flatten Newberry's on Pico for new mall
towel warming gizmos for Jackie O's bathroom
cement mixers of Westwood, submarines of Disneyland, percolators of Pentagon,
thirty dollar robots, SONY's of Winnetka,. .
Philco Televisions where Uncle Louie worked till he retired
revolving Union 76 ball planets of Wilshire
Van de Kamp's perpetual windmill Fairfax/Pico
closed circuits, zebra decoders, thyroid decrypters,
first whistling cylinders of Edison prehistoric 45's. .
the black iron maple-topped Singer sewing machine that Will
eat the top of my Grandmother's finger'
hydroelectric turbines in Nevada to light up L.A.
Rube Goldberg chick feeders of Meridian's rotting coops,
empires of tomato processors for the ketchup. of America s Burgers
empires of plastic packet packagers to put It In!
my life is the plastic packet emptied of its contents for the good of the meat!
preformed the styrofoam boxes of the world!
stuck them to my soul and threw myself to the seal
was treated w/ammonia & chlorine to rid myself of toxins!
regurgitated at the Atomic Clock in Maryland 1966!
prayed for the Uranium Pellets of Three Mile Island!
prayed for the mothers of Nestle babies of man made mother's milk!
prayed for the cancer'd lungs of Native American Uranium Minersl
synthesized DNA for use as a fast food beverage!
put the poodle in the Microwave Oven!
turned on my Trash Compactor when I didn't know my kid was in itl
was given a Moist Towelette by the Supreme Court of CAl
took the bribes from neutron sluts to get a license for Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant!
will be the first sea creature to inhabit the ruins of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant!
invented the 4 month bulb to replace the half decade bulb!
put the fluoride in the water to make a billion dollars for Doctors!
maintenanced the radiation meters of Harrisburg!
I deployed those Trident Subs off the Eastern Seaboard!
I bought cars, condos, and blue chip stock portfolios for my kids wlall the money I got!
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Light
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of Hoover Dam on a December evening swirling tomb of workers
soft above the alcove where Madeline Contino keeps a statue of the Virgin· w/three dimes under
it
lavender floating around Leo the time I saw his aura
office lights in the form of a massive cross on the General Telephone building
the Christmas night I walked the beach from pier to pier
Blue Dot flashes of a lifetime's living rooms .
of the Longwood Gardens fountains lit up by DuPont
broken flashing Ship's red arrow Olympic/La Cienega
black light of the poster room at Third Eye head shop
in Encino, 1969, where I met Dick Van Dyke
through the stained glass windows at Ida Carver's house when she showed me her medals
for diving &nd tennis, she was 80
orbiting mirrors might illuminate troubled NYC in the 90's?
of the purple fly zapper in Mary's kitchen or Susan's patio
miniature ship on top of Variety Arts Theatre seen from the green and red glow of
The Pantry's beacon off Figueroa
of the Mutual of Omaha Tower gone forever
blue digital clock light before I dream
of the bulb Mr. Olinsky stuck in a solution make it work
$20,000 worth of miniature flashlights for Olympics close
lights that used to say " P.J.'s" at the Starwood from across the street at
Wil Wright's Ice Cream Parlor
from flying saucers in the Andes or Grant's Pass, Oregon
lights that went off in the Empire State Building elevator on my first visit
sci-fi processing plant off the 405 near Redondo
through the eclipse box Ricki & Caren made in 4th grade
dim incandescent light of the abortion service waiting room
pink and white light through Leah's window after the March blizzard 178th St.
Death Ray light of the Defense Department's recent Experiments
white light at the end of the hall in my recurring death dream
of Wooster St.'s pink July dawns w/Venus out the kitchen window
the Sun that dries rags on the shores of Africa
Sun that rots grain in the silos of America
light of the sea anemone lamp Belle & Ely gave me
of Skee Ball Place on Central Pier over the giant Pink Panthers
Crime Stopper street lamps make Miami nights glow orange
mirrored ball in underground roller rink where Mike and I played hooky
entire city of Pittsburgh once a year at Christmas
massive granite War Memorial in Indianapolis Thanksgiving night
lights of all Los Angeles darkened just after Pearl Harbor
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Liquids
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a quarter bill ion dollars worth of Pepto Bismol 'cross the purpled mountain's majesty
delicious Frank's Cream Soda w/a Jim's steak sandwich on South St.
little bottle of water and gold chips I panned at Knott's Berry Farm, seven years old,
I asked my Dad to put it in the safe deposit box!
benign fluid Dr. Amira drained from the cyst on my neck
vodka w/maraschino cherry bottle juice I mixed for Sarmit
when we were naked together for the first time
shake up milkshake Aunt Mildred did a product survey for
real farm milk Grandma bought in plastiC bags in Wilkes Barre
a trillion cups of coffee for the cancer'd stomachs of America!
scalding chicken soup a waitress dropped on Max's legs at Buddy's wedding
soft warm water of the hotel shower in Rosarito Beach made Japanese music
as it dripped down the drain
soft August rain I went for a walk in and was stopped by LAPD!
Who put the poison in the eyedrops at Trifty?!
Who threw the battery acid at his ex-fiancee in L.A.?!
23 cents a gallon Sinclair gasoline where I got a plastic dinosaur!
purple bottle smelling salts Mom handed to Phyllis when she was fainting
at our kitchen table from her early cancer .
185,00 gallons of Radioactive water they dumped in the Susquehanna River
two years after Three Mile Island l
the Drano Don's daughter drank because it didn't have safety cap, she lived!
Hawaiian ·Punch, Diet Coke, Metamucil, Pledge, Romilar, Ovaltinel
Mercurochrome Aunt Harriet put on my ankle when I banged it on the stoop off 5th St.!
deserted waters of Love Canal still flowing somewhere?
Lysol, Pine-Sol, Dristan, Listerine, Krazy-Glue, STP, Yoo Hoo
the never empty coffee pots of the I-HOPs of America! .
horse urine weight control serums of the diet cliniCS of Beverly Hilisl
venom of the yellow jacket swelled the top of my foot like a baseball!
Who said the yellow rain was the excrement of bees?!
Endust, Demerol, Tova-9, Hi-C, green tea, Metrecal, Alupent
SQUEEZE PARKAY!
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Vibrations
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electric tingling ran through me when Muktananda touched my hand in Santa Monica
hum of the typewriter sweeps toward an electric destiny
Earthquake shook LA New Year's Day 1980, I lay in bed, hungover, watched the walls crack
clandestine seances at Jeanette's house curtains drawn
" the rumble of the subway train, the rattle of the taxi"
Pentagon mind war missions toward Kremlin & Middle East
Ionic force fields warped by the Santa Ana's
shifting magnetic poles break up continents before '94?
gypsy fortune teller who said " Long life, many years. "
spirit of Kobriene or Carl cracked jokes on my Ouija board
holograms in person long distance not far off?
vibe of the Sedona, AZ magnetic field where Ann Miller lives. .
gentle Eastern body manipulations Nadine did to my arms and legs In a Berkeley healing temple
jiggle machine weight loss sixties gadget we had In our basement
vibrating bed Ed got a $10 roll of quarters for In Vegas
push/pull of the collective unconscious this Indian Summer
Fire Station air raid signal every Wednesday at Noon .
sonic booms of Fort Dix, NJ Army Base where Dad ran the hospital
magic healing crystal Toshu gave me to wear around my neck, I don'!,
large flat singed rings in Kansas fields from UFO's?!
twelve-seater Republic Airlines flight from Memphis I thought sure was the end of me! ..
low frequency Washington Naval Base Defense testing that made surrounding communities
nauseous
reverberation of Kansas City Ballroom dancers what made the Hyatt collapse? Right.
Mr. Spangler's voice over the school intercom telling us that JFK was gone and to go home
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Idea
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I is just a word!
My life is an idea of God, God's got a sense of humor!
Einstein played w/bubbles In the tub to Invent the Universe!
I is the creator of I! "I is someone else."
I found God in the coffee at the Midway Diner, New Jersey
in the strawberry patch at Ambler ditching Aesthetics class, clump of Earth thrown on Ida's
grave that freezing January
I am that I am, I-am what I am, I am not what I was, I am Immortal I!
there was God in a German Shepherd who winked at me, in Jello
1-2-3, Formula 409, Penicillin, Silly Putty, Cyclosporine-A
for the baboon heart of Baby F ae! ,
Larry said, "Life is hard, then you get fat, then you die."
I can't choose anyone else's experience for them.
I see the world as a Whitlock special effect!
Will bean fields sprout in sound stages some years nearby?
Protozoans float over submerged overpasses coast dropped?
in guitar licks of Django Reinhardt, in a hot bath with a
dish of vanilla ice cream, a phone, and cigarettes
I gives freely and expects nothing!
I breathes in the air of all things and exhales light!
from Griffith Observatory mountain'd cyclops
I let go his cerebral lunch on the Pacific Rim!
to the bumper cars of Playland where Minnie Pinto's brother gave us free popcorn!
I understood nothing about God so he called her Liz Taylor!
I will be right back!
Uncle Vern says, "Nobody ever said it was gonna be easy."
It's so easy when you use Lestoil, Saran Wrap, Microwave
I cortrols the machines of the world with liquid thought!
Liquid Gold, Liquid Plumber, liquid lunch of astronauts!
a finger on the button ignites every new rhythm, God swings!
My vibration is a part of all matter thru the Almighty!
Mama said, "Always tell the truth."
You and I, and life is a noun.
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A Wish is a Bargain
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Alphabetical Disorders
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ALPHABETICAL DISORDERS
Jack lit his cigarette on the stove, burned his eyebrows off
Paul saved coupons from Chesterfields, sold wallpaper, died of lung cancer
This couple in Canada, bought a can of Vichyssoise, died that night, botulism
Donna went to Atlantic City, got decapitated on the way home
they put a page in our high school yearbook for her
Beethoven went deaf
Fatty Arbuckle was acquitted in the Rappe case, ruined him anyway
Harvey was almost to the Coconut grove when Bobby got lunched
Some guy lost his head in the elevator shaft at the old CASH building on Cahuenga!
John's mom had a neural aneurism, died,
then John got killed on his motorcycle
Evelyn and her son both had G fingers, had 'em removed at birth
Frances had bugs living underneath her fingernails
are you worth your salt?
"I'll give you violets for your furs"
What time is it in Singapore?
Andy got food poisoning in Thailand, or was it Madagascar?
Ann Landers got a divorce
Liz had a tracheotomy, won the Oscar (for Butterfield 8)
Rich has a three legged dog
Reagan's left eye popped a blood vessel, what can ya say?
do you really want to know about the President's rectal polyps?
Frank O'Hara went for a stroll on the beach , a jeep ran over him
he lived for a few days
newspaper headline, Daily News, LA Life, Feb. 12, 1985;
"WRONG NUMBER GIVEN FOR SUICIDE HOTLINE"
I had perfect eggs over easy in Lordsburg, New Mexico, March 11, 1984
Jackie O's in therapy
kickback asphalt contractors debutante daughters
estrogen hucksters of Jersey's pharmaceutical industrial parks, those lying bastards
robot worker displacement
respirators percolators child eating alligators
waxy buildup, general malaise, acid rain haze
unnecessary mastectomies sterilizing IUDs, poison gas catastrophes, Jalisco cheese!
pension plan embezzlers, radioactive cylinders, cancer causing agents, ring around the col lar,
skid row squalor, salmonella outbreaks, Real People outtakes, sweetheart
evacuation plans of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
topless bars, Dynasty stars, 5 ,r Wars, war bonds, bonded home security, security guards,
guard rails, porcelain nails, acid hail, World Bank bailouts,
book rights, cable deals, harpooned baby seals,
Nevada test fallout,
" every time it rains it rains, sunshine and flowers"
FALLING WORLD TEMPERATURES!
" fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars"
IT WAS UNNECESSARY
Barry bought some acid at a dead concert, woke up naked in a jail cell
my tonsils were removed by a doctor as a precautionary measure it was unnecessary
News Item:
MOST SURGERIES PERFORMED IN THE LAST 25 YEARS UNNECESSARY
I want a week or three at Betty Ford
Pintos explode, soil erodes, batteries corrode, lighten yr load
so this lady orders a strawberry milkshake at McDonald's
it's got rat shit in it,
she got 75 grand!
gun moll, grassy knoll, death toll, gun control
it's a quiet evening
pulmonary specialists are answering their pages
Huberty's widow might be watching Johnny Carson
Manna Oswald may be balancing her checkbook
just stash my urn in a crypt when my number's up
AI Politz never lived to get a bypass
Lou Bronstein dropped dead of a heart attack selling shoes
the spot where Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence is a hot dog stand
With a brass plaque
the 202 Diner had a grease fire, burned to the ground
Dad gave me his uncle's gold pocket watch, I dropped it
NAGASAKI
"back in Nagasaki with the wicki wicki wacki woo"
watch out for that dog up ahead!
Aspartame, missing Zapruder frames, lame legs, same day service
the saleslady at Frederick's of Hollywood told me, "You can't take pictures in here sir !"
hats off to our boys .overseas, Wounded Knee, land of the free, home of the brave, Body By
Jake, GE on the take, insurance rates, spy satellite traitors,
ay, there 's the rub, stubbed toe wait a minute Joe
hangnail, dovetail, sirens wail, out on bail,
anxiety attacks, panic attacks, can't relax
"God shed his grace on thee"
good for nothing, nothing doing, doing nothing,
something happened, happenstance, wrong place at the
wrong time Umbrella Man, contretemps, contraband, controversy
contradiction, Senate investigation, radiation birth defects,
bounced checks, cable-accessed sex,
spare parts graft, Michael Jackson skin grafts,
Hey, what happened to your hair?!
Drano, brain dead, Mr. Ed, what you did, what you said, smoking in bed
failed banks, anti-terrorist tanks, another teenage prank
" did you ever see a dream walkin', well I did"
flammable pajamas, bomb tests in the Bahamas,
Guatemala banana pickers on strike, Diet Like, Herbalife,
copper mines closed down, homeless shelters closed downtown,
"when you're alone and life is making you . "
Police Chief Gates' son got busted for ripping off a pharmacy
Mayor Bradley's daughter got popped for shoplifting,
it's important that our public servants set a good example, don 't you think? are you in the pink,
did you make a stink, need some time to think?
need some room to breathe?
medical emergency, new urgency, need a better detergent?
would you heed the call from Uncle Slam? wham bam, how do ya jam?
convalescent home stench, somatic complaint, Efferdent,
Poli -Dent, make the rent, all the money spent, car accident,
four wheel drive, Five-Alive, televised live,
pea-brained exec split shifts, survivalists, exorcists, manicurists, taxidermists
drug peddler. financial analyst, game show panelist,
cookware demonstrator, baseball club owner, loan shark,
cardiologists, earthquake geologists, tar-pit archeologists,
you win some, you lose some, you give some you get some,
you get some you give some, you have some you get some more,
you don't have to go to war
Jeanne Dixon, Price-Waterhouse, Westinghouse,
dependent spouse, endangered mouse, Spruce Goose, Dr. Seuss,
Middle East truce, Lenny Bruce, hangman's noose,
Bullwinkle Moose! daughter Judy, John Trubee, Jack Ruby.
LETTERS
ROTC, ACLU, UCLA, SPCA, KABC, FDIC LAPD AOMD
WAC, IRA, ITT, I,BM, MBA, USO, HEW, GOP, WPA, JDL: AEC
phone AT&T, he s a VIP, no PDA, she's in the DAR,
send It FTD, fly TWA, take an EKG, bank at B of A,
shop at A&P, go to C&R
NRA, NOW, NFL, DDT, AF of L-CIO, ETC.,
AF of M, MCA, CBS, MGM, CPA, VFW, BBC,
KO, OK, SS, NG, MP, CO, OP, PU, KP, PX, TO DA BA GP OT
TB, BC, CB, ET, NAACP , , , , ,
BA BA BE BE BI BIKKI BI BI BIKKI BI BO BA BU BU BIKKI BI BO
BU
PA, JD, MD, GS-15, PT, UK, VP, 00, OT, BO, LA!
ABCDEFGH I GOT A GAL IN KALAMAZOO
Dr. Turner had a heart attack, dropped dead in his office
Dr. Aboloff got hit by lightning playing golf, killed him
Charlie Chaplin died on Christmas Day
my COUSin David aged 12 dropped dead of a heart attack, wearing his baseball uniform
ROTO ROOTER
a guy goes into the hospital, they take out his one good kidney, becomes a millionaire get me
Dr. Kildare '
Brautigan blew his brains out, wasn't found for months,
the lord works In strange and mysterious ways,
did you bite your lip?
Jayne Mansfield 's got a pink granite heart tombstone
Kay married a guy, he beat her up, killed her cat
Betty said Jack. drank daiquiris till he couldnt' stand up
Carol checked Into the hospital for a minor operation they gave her an enema w/mercury
bichloride, she had to get a colostomy
whoops there goes another one!
Joan got laryngitis, turns out it's an inoperable tumor, they're pumping her lungs in Pompano
Beach,
it's the people that you reach,
weaponry at Seal Beach
~an eleven-year:old Duarte boy accidentally shot himself in the head today)
If you need assistance,. dial the White House Operator at 202-456-1414 ...
Dr. Spock an~?unced In Canada that " society is sick and getting sicker!" Thanks Doc.
Einstein said, Imagination IS more Important than knowledge."
THERE HAS TO BE MORE MEANING
nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, dangerous additives,
drug dependencies, sex crimes, drunk drivers,
toxic spil ls, earthquake faults, seven year wars,
uncontrollable AI DS, missing kids, death cults,
car bombs, near misses, car crashes, animal labs,
dog pounds, exploding gas, abortion clinic bombings,
CIA directives, gas chambers, hijackings,
terrorist retribution, teenage computer hackers!1
A life of service, in the true sense of the word,
where symbolic acts make a difference ... it doesn't take much
what a strange life this is, huh?
what can I do?
deep concerns, deep convictions, right relations,
sensing the plan, mystical perception, not imposing your will
what risks to take, what promise to make,
there's a time to think, and a time to act
what's money got to do with it?
law of silence, laws of speech, a loving heart,
an intelligent mind, extending a kindness, expressing a fondness
surely goodness and mercy exists after the CBS Evening News
weather the storm , you live and you're born
"we are all living on the verge on new happenings, of increased opportunities, fresh complexities,
and of definite spiritual crises ... We grow by the presentation of moments of crisis"
sympathy, charity, truthfulness, purity, gentleness,
kindness, humor, love, family, friends, people forgiveness,
crises tests your strength, purpose, purity
face the future with joy
get into the right place and stay there
to live within yourself and forget yourself
each and all has their place in the plan
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