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		<description>The original writings of author Marquise</description>
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			<title>I've Been Heaven Before (wedding vows rewritten)</title>
			<description>Originally he wrote these in 2013 and renewing vows in 2025 is amazing. I wrote a shorter condensed version of my original vows..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/2953633/</link>
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			<title>The Beauty Within</title>
			<description>Comfortable with being uncomfortable</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/2805847/</link>
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			<title>Wishes to my ChildHood Friends</title>
			<description>A letter to the childhood friends that didn't really get to be children.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/2805193/</link>
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			<title>MOVE....part 2</title>
			<description>See MOVE. part 1..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/1642032/</link>
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			<title>Nouns and Verbs</title>
			<description>Be Great at being You</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/1516808/</link>
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			<title>Bound </title>
			<description>For my cousin...who's no longer here with us..i wish i wrote this when it mattered.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/1298173/</link>
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			<title>My Wedding Vows</title>
			<description>I was on a writers break due to falling in love. :-) 
These are the vows I said to my wife...hope you like them as much as I loved them.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/1298170/</link>
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			<title>Re-usables</title>
			<description>something i wrote as a response to a picture i saw...i want a turkey sandwich...random...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/952390/</link>
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			<title>What's not to love?</title>
			<description>AN OVERDUE LOVE POEM</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/945991/</link>
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			<title>Let's Talk Over Coffee</title>
			<description>Every morning the lives of 4 unique individuals begin at 6am and not a minute after.  Charlene's chat and chew gets plenty of business these days.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/786794/</link>
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			<title>She listens to Jazz</title>
			<description>So she listens to jazz...smooth skinmelodic undertonesnostalgic scarsher scabs are shaped like treble clef notes&amp;nbsp;rhythms at warsurround sound stereo be her chessboardand the black and white chess piecesare stored in memorywhere thoughts are recycled and not birthed&amp;nbsp;But Grover Washington Jr..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/710159/</link>
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			<title>The Discovery Chanelle</title>
			<description>Just discovered my girlfriend had a double life The whole damn time she was somebody else&amp;rsquo;s wife.&amp;nbsp;The news just broke me,&amp;nbsp;like Lebron Jamesleaving Cleveland for Miami.&amp;nbsp;The fling of thesummer is now the coldest story ever told.&amp;nbsp..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/643650/</link>
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			<title>CLEAR...</title>
			<description>it still hurts...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/643188/</link>
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			<title>MOVE</title>
			<description>Let's move planets together.For recreational purposes.Instead of pushing each otherout of each others lives.Let's shrink ourselves.Even smaller thanwe've made each other feel over the yearsand make sandcastles inside of hourglasses together.Use our own tears to keepthem stu..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/635270/</link>
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			<title>Vacuums</title>
			<description>about being at the abortion clinic.. last chance to change history for the good, or for the bad...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/539032/</link>
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			<title>4/18 NEW WORDS - Poseidon Ave.</title>
			<description>I was comfortablewith being alone.The words &amp;ldquo;I Love You&amp;rdquo;began to sound like French to me.I studied Japanese incollege.Until you camestrolling along of course.Our encounter seemed innocent.Crossing paths on asuggestive street corner where hook..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/537724/</link>
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			<title>none</title>
			<description>I would never try to change you.That's like plastering arms back on the Statue of David.Or taking&amp;nbsp; Michelangelo's Hands of God and Adam and painting theirpointed hands back at themselves. &quot;two more examples&quot;Masterpieces become such not because of their age, but the story behind it.I only tried ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/532021/</link>
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			<title>Self-less Portrait (extended version)</title>
			<description>To me she is the Mona Lisa of Philly.No wonder I could not paint her beauty with words.I guess some works of artwe're never meant to be created.But we are HERE now...Trying to figure out what to dowith this paintbrush, canvas, and blurs of beautiful colorsthat are blinding us from reality.The catch ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/530408/</link>
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			<title>dreams</title>
			<description>how could I say that i loved her so much, but I didn't show up to say goodbye.What was i thinking. more importantly, what was I drinking that day.I should have counted my blessings, one sheep at a time, the grass ain''t as green as they say.I'm gonna see you someday, don't know if that day will be s..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/529993/</link>
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			<title>Selfless Portrait</title>
			<description>for her...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/529229/</link>
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			<title>Bloom</title>
			<description>You're like a flower when you're bloomingstaring in the midnight sky&amp;nbsp;So impatient when you're bloomingwaiting for the sun to rise&amp;nbsp;I see you're thirsty for the raindropsbut the sky won't cry&amp;nbsp;Oh how I wish I could water youbut these eyes are dry....&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/488966/</link>
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			<title>Mid-afternoon Flight</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;A wise man once said that the way things start are the way thing end.I can't remember how this infatuation started so I guess I'll have to pretend.This chapter of fall weather began with innocence.I toyed with the volume of her authorative tone while she only&amp;nbsp;meant to playfully mi..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/482085/</link>
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			<title>a loved-letter</title>
			<description>a lovedletter to her</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/460375/</link>
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			<title>Where is Jessica?</title>
			<description>its not finished but tell me what yall think so far</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/427892/</link>
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			<title>Rinse Cycle</title>
			<description>a revised version of another poem </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/417626/</link>
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			<title>Hereditary Cycle</title>
			<description>She washes your laundrydaily, and faithfullyridding the stench of some womanyou sexed the night beforeFolding the inseem of thepants leg where she probablytouched you.&amp;nbsp;She prays over you're colddinner plate, inter seeding foryou, hoping God will stillbless you in your me..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/398769/</link>
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			<title>S(un)set</title>
			<description>Is it too much to ask to exist in your moonlightfor a few minutes?Allow my shadow to experiencethe settling of dawn beside yours.Unsettling as that may be for youIs it too much to ask?For your tears to be faithful for onceand not fall for any other man except me.For your friend..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/397634/</link>
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			<title>realtionship rule #3</title>
			<description>HOUSE TOGETHER?KIDS TOGETHER?GET MARRIED.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/394184/</link>
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			<title>relationship rule #2</title>
			<description>HER TALKING, YOU LISTENING, EQUALS SEX..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/394183/</link>
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			<title>Relationship rule #1</title>
			<description>6 word poem</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/394182/</link>
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			<title>My bi-sexual girlfriend</title>
			<description>6 word poem</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/394180/</link>
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			<title>Space: The Final Frontier</title>
			<description>Space: The Final FrontierMy girlfriend has an advanceddegree in engineering and biological science.Has at least 1,000 hours of pilot-in-commandtime in a jet aircraft.She passed the NASA space physicalwhich is similar to a military flight physicalwith flying colors, to..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/393670/</link>
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			<title>LOVE IN STEREO</title>
			<description>My love was in stereo,so i begged herto put the vinyl to rest.But her ideals of thedefinition of real musicwere passed down toher by manufactured lovethat Mtv, Vh1, I BET they do consider this love...that &quot;record what sells andnot whats original&quot; love.If I even tried to find common ground she'd mos ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/388476/</link>
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			<title>The Awakened part 1.</title>
			<description>just read.....</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/387382/</link>
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			<title>When You're Ready</title>
			<description>when its time to love again...make sure your ready...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/387379/</link>
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			<title>Another Pointless Poem</title>
			<description>When she first spoke to me, I could taste the meaning of life on her breath. luckily, it didnt mean s**t. I keep the revelation of the taste to myself. Figured I'd wait until the conception of our first child. Right after his 8th birthday. I know its going to be a boy, because ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/363680/</link>
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			<title>My pointless poem</title>
			<description>She said love was a three-way street in her world. Who knew that meant she was bi-sexual... I pulled myself together after she blew the news my way. I googled the word bi-sexual for clarity and picked my nose at the same time. Now THAT is some serious multi-tasking.  So I bought some b..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/324438/</link>
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			<title>The smoke signals</title>
			<description>I wanna be free and get lost within you Then maybe I'll find myself.. my baby. I want to get lost like my fingers do when they glide thru your hair, and lay silent with you... my baby. If only the fire inside that was  left behind would go away. Even the water from our tears won'..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/321500/</link>
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			<title>My Beauty ( rough draft)</title>
			<description> (in progress... i just need to store it here lol)</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/291127/</link>
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			<title>Who R U...</title>
			<description>sometimes the ones we want to love we have trouble getting o know, and sometimes more otfen than not, the ones we do love.. we don't really know them at all...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/250329/</link>
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			<title>F**k It..</title>
			<description>I started to sit don, and really meditate, an get deep.. but for no reason at all, i just sai f**k it, and wrote s**t i normally wouldn't think about, maybe the bad side of me would tho.. hmm...  :)</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/242767/</link>
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			<title>The Science</title>
			<description>I threw caution to the wind seeking security hoping for some type of assistance beneath my tired  wings... &amp;nbsp; But the velocity in the wind did not equate to the density in her voice &amp;nbsp;She and I only agree to disagreeand disagreements are tolerablebecause they happ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/242758/</link>
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			<title>Welcome to Foo-Young Foo's</title>
			<description>just being sarcastic.. this for all the chinese stores in the ghetto that get picked on for no reason! somebody loves ya!!</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/236233/</link>
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			<title>She oughta Know</title>
			<description>she oughta know by nowto let the memories fadeshe oughta know that the photographic kissestraced from necklace to lipshave faded awayshe has to know that itshard to shake those imageswhen a part of me cannotthrow them awayWe drew up the perfect relationshipbut she did..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/236215/</link>
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			<title>the winner is..</title>
			<description>surrounded by so much potential &amp;nbsp; we threw jabs at inconsistency instead&amp;nbsp;12 rounds of nonsense proceeded...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/236202/</link>
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			<title>Why Wont She</title>
			<description>its really a song but i figure someone will relate..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/232868/</link>
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			<title>Just Remember</title>
			<description>Just Remember Just because my mind is at ease does not mean you have my attention And just because your fingertips are still allowed to climb my back doesn't mean there won't be some resistance Just because our lips still feel the moistness does not mean I feel the sensual bl..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/222325/</link>
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			<title>Your Slave</title>
			<description> I am your slave locked away only released  to fulfill your pleasures Please feed me master My hunger only grows for what I feast upon daily Allow my tongue to raid your temple twisting and turning within your ebony walls searching for your hidden treasures And with each stroke..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/206667/</link>
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			<title>For You...</title>
			<description>Who do I write for? Who am I singing these songs for? Who would I die for? Who am I living my life for?.... How can we fight more... when everyday that passes we promised that we would all love more? But I guess that plan imploded  like a building hit by a boulder, so let's try..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/206652/</link>
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			<title>The Edge of My World</title>
			<description>They say the end of the world is nearing So maybe if we all stand at the edge of it we could see more clearly Cause we all want what we think we need to survive Have the American dream get a piece of that pie Well don't save me a slice I'd rather get full eating the word of lif..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/marquise/206647/</link>
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