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But a blatting voice butted in, and it was not royalty.

Even the people he loved most besides her—his parents and Nurse Beverly—were just background noise, occasional blats and blurps, while Josie was the symphony that sang through his every waking moment.

We play the piece again, and when the school heaters stop banging and all the toots and random blats come together, it sounds all right.

The Sounders were jolted back into MLS play with an early ping and blat of the ball off the goal post and cross bar Saturday.

In one early poem, he asked: “What definition of beauty can exclude / The MV Agusta racing 500-3, / From the land of Donatello, with blatting megaphones?”