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This is Windows MediaPlayer - push play and the poem will play as it downloads - this is called streaming audio.	This is the Quicktime player - it also seems to stream the audio - watch the download progress in the indicator bar.

If the poem skips during the 1st playing let the whole poem play and then run it again - the skips will disappear	If the poem skips just hit stop then run it again and it won't skip -there is a volume control at the extreme left of this control
Little Words -Dorothy Parker When you are strayed, there is nor bloom nor leaf Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds. And I may only stare, and shape my grief In little words. I cannot conjure loveliness, to drown The bitter woe that racks my chords apart. The staggering pen that sets my sorrow down Feeds at my heart. There is no mercy in the shifting year; No beauty wraps me tenderly about. I turn to little words - so you, my dear, Can spell them out.
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