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Ode to a Pizza Box

All is not lost, my friends

A PIZZA BOX TOP, discarded on East 63rd Street, New York City. Photo by the author

There was a cardboard pizza-box top on the sidewalk last night, just sitting there, missing its lower half. I wasn’t the first to trample on it. I probably wasn’t the first to take a picture of it.

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