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99¢ Bin

KELSEA O'CONNOR

One 6-oz rubber hockey puck at Canadian Tire

  • Postage to send one 30 gram letter anywhere in Canada
  • 3 minutes and 46.5 seconds of Bobcaygeon by The Tragically Hip on iTunes
  • Not quite 4 sour cream glazed Timbits™
  • 10.25 pages of Geist
  • 40.25 raw natural almonds
  • 19 minutes, 48 seconds of dryer time at Budget Coin Laundry on Dundas Street in Toronto
  • 9.96 metres of scotch tape
  • 5.7 minutes of labour under BC minimum wage
  • 7 Ikea meatballs
  • 178.5 millilitres of Granville Island Brewing Lions Winter Ale
  • 43.5 minutes of rental housing in Dundas West in Toronto
  • 2.6 photographs on a 24-exposure roll of Fujifilm
  • 14 minutes and 51 seconds of internet use at Net Effect Internet Café in Toronto
  • 74 millilitres of Pumpkin Spice Latte plus unlimited WiFi at Starbucks
  • 108 seconds of long-distance calling within Canada
  • 938 millilitres of gasoline; approximate driving distance: 11.2 km
  • Nearly one minute in a tanning bed.
  • 4.7% of a Bob & Doug DVD on Amazon.
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    KELSEA O'CONNOR

    Kelsea O’Connor is contributing editor to Geist. She lives in New Westminster.


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    Young Earle Birney in Banff: September 1913¹

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    Zamboni Driver’s Lament

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    Xcuse Me

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