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Four times a year we withdraw to a layout room,
Pulling out cardboard with non-reproducing blue
Labels and numbers and boxes for lining up
Photomechanical transfers of elements.
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Flip through the files of photos and logotypes.
Calculate ratios that we should shoot them at.
Dance to the darkroom and clean off the copy stand.
Take the exposure; develop the PMTs.
When those are waxed we extract our Ex-act-o blades,
Cutting so cunningly, carefully close to the
Edges of images we wish to juxtapose.
Titles and texts have been waxed on their underside;
Holidays, movie times, digits for every date,
Symbols for stereo Dolby SurroundSound are
Placed on the layout board, crossing the border tape.
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Shooting the negative, ``press-ops'' prepare a plate;
Ten thousand posters are printed and handed out.
Four times a year the new LSC Calendar
Journeys from our mind's eye out to the Institute.

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