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			<title>Subtle Command </title>
			<description>Go out into this gathering daywith your beauty, and zeal, unhinderedwith your regrets cast asunder mightilywith your demeanor energized to hope.This day has longed for you to enter hershe's brought you light for youto dance within.Waltz forth, and never doubt your lovehaving put yo..</description>
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			<title>constancy</title>
			<description>When last I'd caught a glimpse of what it wasto be redeemed by passion,that bleary eyed featherof forgotten fortitudewhispering a whimperwithin our whistlingwounded winds,i shuddered from silent spasm.Passion might seem to manythat most fleeting of emotions,but i dare to offe..</description>
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			<title>tracing ovals </title>
			<description>Our sun didn't rise this morning.she never does.we spin into her rays,and create that illusion.we all awaken with a foregone conclusion that is myth.starlingspopulate our heavenstracing ovals withtheir swirling murmurations.nature should never be quantified. for every thrush sh..</description>
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			<title>fruition</title>
			<description>Never, I thought, would it be this slippery.these pitfalls, snares, traps, and thickets;shuns, detachments, slights,and microaggressions.if I try to lift into this worldwith my imperfectly human heart,will my restlessness be moved to solace,or my insecurities moved toward fruition?..</description>
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			<title>palm</title>
			<description>as i struggle to take one nemesis of breaththat inherent devotion of staying.quiet these intangiblesas they scream from that fearof their, hopeful, eventual nothingness.you browsed upon my fading knuckleswith that snowy dove of your assuring palm.you always say you we..</description>
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			<title>awaiting coal</title>
			<description>when for whathave youstareintoeyesthat arewhat for whenewe took my hand along yore swollen perambulations into nights devoidof airewe have never swallowed a trace of light that ewe cannot reflect uponas dustentombed in heavens disassembled from unleavene..</description>
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			<title>calling IV</title>
			<description>calling IV&amp;nbsp;calling all truck driverscalling all car dealers&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;all scuba divers&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; all potato peelers&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;..</description>
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			<title>Power of Fate</title>
			<description>a long time agoin a galaxy far far awaythe bus travelled to slowand the people on the bus were much too gayfor the young man who wantednothing else but to be homefor the young man who deep down was hauntedby the thought of being alonethe day dully dragged onand ..</description>
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			<title>coil</title>
			<description>pragmatistwill stand, arms pocketed, within windand cast a shadow seemingly geometricwhile negotiatingnecessity of silence.he strides into his footstepsand leaves no doubt in his wake-as spontaneous as a traffic lightas real as styrofoamhe will judge things only as they appearshallow pools of his ex..</description>
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			<title>preface to all i am going to post on this site, from here on out.</title>
			<description>this is a stage play in that it sets this small theater's stage for all that follows. if i were going to name our theater on this site, of course, i'd name it cafe' theater...</description>
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			<title>old greenwich</title>
			<description>Dearest Phil i have ever had that special experience ofgetting to know-i&amp;rsquo;m still spinning off of this passed Saturday&amp;rsquo;s exhange...this is going to be mine bestest-fragile attempt to flowsome stream of consciousnessas mine brilliant OTC medications work toward putting ..</description>
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			<title>Gorilla</title>
			<description>when i cordoned you offwith Gorilla Tape and lilac vineonce i was done attaching encrypted filesof pearls upon that sultry salt of your inner-thighsonce i&amp;rsquo;d borrowed bondsoff my favorite banker&amp;rsquo;s portfolioso i could waste myself in their earned interestrat..</description>
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			<title>Wilson</title>
			<description>inspired, in part, by barleygirl</description>
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			<title>let us, please, circle our wagons around all this spam on our site...</title>
			<description>i am taking a breakfrom my usual portrayal of nonsense in my workand i'm going to attempt to speak as clearly as i can.i took a&amp;nbsp;leave from this site almost a year ago.though i don't recall any specific negativity inspiring my departure,i'm going to sum it up by stating i had&amp;nbsp;soul-searching..</description>
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			<title>25 things...(check for redundance)</title>
			<description>Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.(To do this, go to &amp;ldquo;notes..</description>
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			<title>&quot;colorblind&quot;...*(check for redundance)</title>
			<description>* inspired by Counting Crows</description>
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			<title>why i've decided it's o.k. to love those New York Yankees...</title>
			<description>there appears to be pain in this world today.i, too, have been through pain.in a Subway Series i will always pick those pesky Mets.as my anger against those Yankees came to a crescendoi babbled about them representing arrogance, greed,inequality, free market disloyalty, and entitlement....always see..</description>
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			<title>i have never swallowed fire...(check for redundance)</title>
			<description>i have never swallowed firedespite inhaling smoke,nor have i ever met my liarto spill his spleen from what he spoke.upon the insertion of desertionthere was fear, fear, fear, and fearthe assembled miracle of a smile...brought to behold the doubt of death to breath.&amp;ldquo;the condor&amp;rdquo; she stated..</description>
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			<title>Alberto...(check for redundance)</title>
			<description>left flipper kickcompleting zest abreast crest, waning to drop me off...the rail ducks away from setting sun.no steady structures atop this sea,only surging remnants of storm-swells stifling echoes of infinity,...cavernous spins of swirl.the board - soft and spongy.Anyone calling the Turbo a Boogiep..</description>
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			<title>immaculate...(check for redundance)</title>
			<description>the palace had been acquired,he stated as he sat amongst it,from &quot;luck&quot;.the leather-bound synopsestelling the past thirty centuriesflung into crown-molded shelves like flecks onto a Pollack-...they held no essencesave for the ambition that had placed them there.as our five year old crept from parlor..</description>
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			<title>clinical...(check for redundance)</title>
			<description>as you shine, for me, your fearwith accusations of conspiracy won by the warmth of sunlight,you inhale.your heart rate quickens.your pupils dilate.your voice raises.your posture stiffens....i, in your racing thoughts,am too blinded toread your gentle truth.such truth,however,is your ether.silent poi..</description>
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			<title>big-little girl...(check for redundance)</title>
			<description>big-little girl,you make happymy world.you have such shine,as rainbow's curl-...through your eye's sky,you are, to me,infinity.even your shadowdances with glee.big-little girlonce small,now biggerstanding tall,you help daddy's lifeto enchantment's place-special magicunique grace.big-little girldon't..</description>
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			<title>x,,,(check for redundance)</title>
			<description>to have misstepped, and regained balance, is to live. today was the day i found home, rounding the last bend on my morning walk. there was a type of bird i'd never seen before ...skimming along the bayswells twenty minutes earlier. an earthy collection of dusted feathers found their way toward fligh..</description>
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			<title>lie...(check for redundance)</title>
			<description>today, finally, isn't about that.&amp;nbsp;i have decided not to be about that anymore.i have trampled on it....&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;      today was about the first day that the garbage went to the curb on time, barely. i'd gotten home at eleven last night. shot through, i was, like..</description>
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			<title>the yank within my spanks</title>
			<description>was always stronger than Frank's. The easiest thing for me to fumble was thanks. Pride had my progress lined up for tanks.The dank, skank, shanks of shells loaded blank as pranks. Today's song of the day? Lou Reed's &quot;Sword of Damocles.&quot; Time for work. </description>
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			<title>when...(check for redundance)</title>
			<description>when the world gives itself to you,love her in return.worry, not, how she may burn,for she was ice long before your love,and shall outlast you.today is the day whenbeauty overran memory...when Yalom outweighed Golub,and the scene within my smileoutflanked the seamwithin my mended heart.stronger now...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Bowzer0828/1726707/</link>
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			<title>natural causes</title>
			<description>through windows of breathwe try to gaze from beneath our sunken blindness.&amp;nbsp;...there were twelve thousand four hundred and fourteenunasked questions brewing pulp into her stare.this sap of ancient pathways, zapping--through tumult,into resilience.&amp;nbsp;we do not cherish that which cannot perish,..</description>
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			<title>the robe...(check for redundance)</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;Years had passed since it was bought for him. Thirteen years since he was unemployed, thwarted, spasmodic and ashen. There were few dreams left back then. Discussions of change did not include Libya, nor Egypt; medicinal California, nor civil union.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Cars&amp;nbsp; kne..</description>
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			<title>calling I ,,, (check for redundance)</title>
			<description>never having wept, but for the thwarted throes of asphalt, i knelt. soiled knees pressed into a wincing pain by the stones stuck upon the surface; rocks, foils of toil, shining as passers by roll over us all.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; i have a breath to share with you. i have a brief breeze to b..</description>
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			<title>calling I ... (check for redundance)</title>
			<description>we'd always been in the midst, whether we knew it or not, of these tragically brilliant unfolding things. we had bitten the salt off of a sun subjective and trampled our dreams to find the shimmer within reality. we'd unfolded explosive energy from the giggling grasps of children being tickled. we'd..</description>
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			<title>calling...(marked as not to post - redundant)</title>
			<description>never having wept, but for the thwarted throes of asphalt, i knelt. soiled knees pressed into wincing pain by stones in the surface; rocks. foils of toil, shining, as passers by roll over us all.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; i have a breath to share with you. i have a brief breeze to blow upon your..</description>
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			<title>Natural Bass (believed to be already on this site under a different title)</title>
			<description>for that, which is classic, is ageless&amp;ldquo;Prosaic steel girder&amp;rdquo; hydraulically liftingastride Northbound Brick Lake Park;just as Bill stated&amp;hellip;...when you theorize universal collectivesall of them connecthow I-195 resembles Cross Islandhow Trenton reminds Waltof broken lilac stems benea..</description>
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			<title>ellusive mistress</title>
			<description>when, ever, i have slept for silenceshe has eluded me amidst those pinesthose tall, graceful, dancers in that windthey lean amongst galesand do not snap.their life sways within their whisperand i am left to dream of crashing waves,tumbles through foam,and sunlight's surrender to night's surrender to..</description>
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			<title>for all of us are wind</title>
			<description>for all of us are windthough none of us are passingcrows care not for our traumasfor in this, now, there are none.&amp;nbsp;i didn't mean to end such dazeand no matter how painstaking-hindsight still tries to clutch itselfas if he were a himand his hands were madefrom breezestrying to lift outbeetles fr..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Bowzer0828/1726479/</link>
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			<title>i didn't mean</title>
			<description>i didn't mean to be mean.i didn't mean to be the mean.i didn't mean to meander into the sheen of your emptied spleen.i didn't mean to get this large.... i didn't mean to handicap myself with pepper-onion pizza slices and Peanut Butter Cup.i didn't mean to discharge that patient&amp;nbsp;who turned up de..</description>
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			<title>mix of earth</title>
			<description>when?when did this wrist betray her tissue to clench?when did these apostles of my heart veto proposals of my ruin?when, ever, did I betray my former self?when was a moment in which I didn&amp;rsquo;t?my eyes have lost bay&amp;rsquo;s seductive gaze &amp;lsquo;neath nightfall.that wispy uncle, rain, has warned ..</description>
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			<title>pack-pack</title>
			<description>to carry is to wanderneither destitute, nor resolute,the illegitimate minors in a be flat worldhaving sprung upon conscience of-only those that know wait.i would have to experience your love to miss it,wouldn't i ?to have my earth shattered by putting you downwould presuppose your impact was hoisted..</description>
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			<title>justice, fairness, abd equality</title>
			<description>Thank you fellow learners,&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Eventually my attention span, the schedule i carry, the awareness and experience i'm gaining toward how this coursework is organized, will all begin to convene in such a way that i'll be putting these threads together before they're due. i hop..</description>
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			<title>heir</title>
			<description>swift phenaegles of swirling chlorophyll's descenti've had this idea no time is misspentwhere i've been's none to do with where i went...shadow-filled spins of intention bentinto an arch about a raven's brow.&amp;nbsp;for what is it to give if i demand what's lent?if i lose lessons while seeking eventsi..</description>
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			<title>Seaside</title>
			<description>for this is what love is, he pondered. devastation is that foundation upon which we build. Loss is myth. Humanity is certainty of unknowns. existence is distance, resistance, and insistence; all of that which is gone remains. pain is, but, one, universal, language-- through which we learn there are ..</description>
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			<title>Mrs. Wilson spins away (beginnings of frame)</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;in this event there were no scripts, though at times, there were prescriptions. i knew she was gone as i met her, i knew she would stay as i was leaving. there were no dice left to roll. every once in a while her majestic train would steam by my traffic as red light bells of time's caution bec..</description>
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			<title>Home Into Shining</title>
			<description>(dear loveLord, Godabove.)i've been umbering aroundmumbling this mantra for years.why i mutter it changessuch words, themselves, helpdesist burdens of false fears-(dear loveLord, Godabove.)i try not to judgeany kindred brother of spiritCole - you helped teach that lesson to melong before i'd been bl..</description>
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			<title>eleven ellipses</title>
			<description>you might have thought you were on to me that day...as we catapulted by graveyards on our way tomomentary rejection amidst Word's Autocorrection projection...as if hunger could be assuaged with grainspliced by coke brothers' soiled re-engineering of trails of tears holding width for all...is there a..</description>
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			<title>a hole</title>
			<description>Bob Whitey, x thought, might've seemed an a-hole his whole life. When he was younger, Bob was one of those admirable a-holes who seemed to get things done. strapping strength of a slightly aged warrior, an Irish-American Odysseus trying to navigate past his Sirens. Bob had a way of talking like a po..</description>
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			<title>lock</title>
			<description>with this sojourn of swarming tempestsbeaks of a bevy of turkey vultures pecking, though quilted, by lost twilights...i've careened within that cari've careened upon that assi've careened past that carcasson my way into my massi've dreamed of creamfrom moments pastbarking my beak into her brash-rash..</description>
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			<title>and sir</title>
			<description>stuffed into my shirt like some irish breakfast sausageme and all of these ss i carryeach of them spokenas from a forked tongueof a Kimodowaiting amidst brushfor this prey to falterfrom my swollen bacterial contact...there is no regret out here in this dustonly sinewonly tasks undoneand insects loll..</description>
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			<title>three</title>
			<description>God, you may be dead, but i aint sure.you may be a god of gold minus yellow lead,either way, i ain't pure.you may have been created by us...years back be for us was before usyou may have nothing to do with lustyou may have nothing to do with dustyou may never have properly been discussedperhaps you ..</description>
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			<title>masteress</title>
			<description>i cheated on you last night, dear darlingi cheated on you last night.&amp;nbsp;...this tongue, now mine, is tiredthis abdomen, now mine, is sore&amp;nbsp;i abandoned our union with this afflictionin me&amp;nbsp;how She dug her nails intothis skin, now mine,as we lied together.&amp;nbsp;She tore up this sinewy flesh..</description>
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			<title>&quot;Dyad Summary&quot;</title>
			<description>This impending paper, and this assignment, are both about a fascinating human being. A young man who appears a quandary of simultaneous fragility and hope, disillusionment and resilience, lethargy and energy, ambition and ambivalence. He is less definable than he is diagnosed. He is more apt than he..</description>
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			<title>might</title>
			<description>i kissed this hibiscus, which once, you gifted ustrial of tearful eyes held poignant amidstinsipid myths such as mist desisted....what, then?what of that time you held effervescence as if it were essence,folding Camus into a compress between yore's yearning kneesas you taught me that a double-windso..</description>
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