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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=6 color="#7324ff"
face=CantoriaMT-SemiBold><span style='font-size:25.0pt;font-family:CantoriaMT-SemiBold;
color:#7324FF;font-weight:bold'>A Poem:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=6 color="#7324ff"
face=CantoriaMT-SemiBold><span style='font-size:25.0pt;font-family:CantoriaMT-SemiBold;
color:#7324FF;font-weight:bold'>NSF Report<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>Now I lay me down to snore<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>So here's my NSF report.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>If I should die before I wake<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>Just grab my cash and buy a cake.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>It really wasn't quite so bad<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>To write this thing<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>But I'm so sad<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>I didn't write it long ago.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>And failing that, I write these lines<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>In stark reminder of my crimes<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>And pecadillos that I know<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>Did victimize my friends and all<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>The granty people down the hall.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>Who treat me far too well, and so<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>Should not put up with me at all.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>I'll dine on water, and on gruel<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>Awaiting my next grant renewal.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>The last I did, it seemed well written<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>At least it seemed when I was sittin'<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>With my 'top across my lap.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>But then I woke up from my nap<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>To gaze upon my limpid screen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>And see what I had never seen:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>The text of mediocrity<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>The megalo-verbosity<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>The drivel that was oh, so clear<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>and seemed so clever and so droll<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>was not enough to make the roll<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>At NSF, who by design<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>Let pass a long and baleful time<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>Then failed to fund my grant last year.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>And tho, unfunded, high and dry,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>I never weep, or sniff, or cry.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>I merely seek for that employ<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>That suits the bad-grant-writing boy,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>Who cannot publish, write or speak,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>And hit the skids downtown last week.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>I do not care, I really don't<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>It doesn't bug me, so I won't<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>Complain at all. I don't, I'm not...<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>Hey! I'm just talkin' here, so what?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>Another grant I must submit?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>One more report, as yet unwrit?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>I laugh, I cry, my sides are split.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 color=black
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:black'>Cut me some slack, I'm over it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=1 color="#480c00"
face=Fenice-Light><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;
color:#480C00'>Chad Nusbaum serves as Co-Director, Sequencing and Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color="#480c00" face=Fenice-Light><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Fenice-Light;color:#480C00'>Program, Broad
Institute of MIT and Harvard, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">MA</st1:State></st1:place>.</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=4 face="Monotype Corsiva"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"'>Linda Mason, Ed.D.</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Coordinator for Grant Writing and External Funding</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Oklahoma</span></font></st1:PlaceName><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">State</st1:PlaceType></span></font></st1:place><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Regents for Higher
Education</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>655 Research
Parkway, Suite 200</span></font></st1:address></st1:Street><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Oklahoma City</span></font></st1:City><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, <st1:State
w:st="on">OK</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">73104</st1:PostalCode></span></font></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>405-225-9486</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="mailto:lmason@osrhe.edu">lmason@osrhe.edu</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>IP: 164.58.250.178</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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