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		<description>The original writings of author Phantasmagoric Perceptions</description>
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			<title>Ode to a Soldier</title>
			<description>He lays down his weary head,Eyes heavy and tremulous with sleepThe day folds closed and rests its wingsHolding tight to his tired mindShe thinks of him and clutches her chestHer heart, she fears it will rip right throughThe cage of bone that keeps it her ownInstead of the soldier's, across the seaHi..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/799564/</link>
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			<title>Truth</title>
			<description>I'm alive, but I'm alone.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/657616/</link>
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			<title>The Atheist's Lament</title>
			<description>The masses writhe in a senseless fury,Grasping to touch the hands of God.Do they not know what I know so well?These ravenous wolves, these rabid dogs.Violent nuns and priests, the blood of Christ dripping from their teeth,They're all hungry, they're all starving-They gnash and fight for a better sta..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/644669/</link>
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			<title>Function</title>
			<description>Real life.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/613336/</link>
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			<title>Time Turned Fragile</title>
			<description>For Kriss</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/605785/</link>
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			<title>Mama Always Said</title>
			<description>Real Life</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/587094/</link>
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			<title>Le Bruit (The Noise)</title>
			<description>Votre voix, c'est une cacophonie violenteSir&amp;egrave;nes de raid a&amp;eacute;rien dans mes oreillesJe pousse votre&amp;nbsp;t&amp;ecirc;te sous l'eauToujours, votre voix remplit mes oreilles vides&amp;nbsp;Est-il beaucoup desirer pour silence?Est y un moment de paix?Je pousse votre t&amp;ecirc;te sous l'eauJu..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/557128/</link>
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			<title>Machine Girl</title>
			<description>This is me.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/537210/</link>
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			<title>I Unravel.</title>
			<description>...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/537200/</link>
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			<title>It's Funny You Still Think of Me</title>
			<description>I find it humorous.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/537198/</link>
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			<title>October Rain</title>
			<description>Life right now.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/460669/</link>
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			<title>She'd Never Tell You</title>
			<description>She'd never tell you how much it hurtsTo be on the outside looking in.She tries and she tries to be just like you,But she can never win.She wears a smile that isn't real,And hides her thoughts away.She has a facade that cannot feel,Made of words she'll never say.She breaks apart ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/396745/</link>
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			<title>Nightmares</title>
			<description>I&amp;nbsp;see faces in the sandAnd time slips awayFlowing through curved spaceSimply passing me byI reach out to you with a crooked handAnd you slip awayYou can't even look me in the faceYou simply pass me byI hear the trees screaming-But their voices never escapeThey grin and b..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/384812/</link>
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			<title>A Girl With No Name, and a Drunken Escapade</title>
			<description>Inspired by the Airborne Toxic Event</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/339270/</link>
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			<title>Destroy This</title>
			<description>Cutting the Cord.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/314791/</link>
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			<title>Babylon</title>
			<description>The city is steeped in filth and decayDrowning in the Evil she breedsShe's held together by spiderweb shamsBut deep in her bowels she bleeds.&amp;nbsp;This is the place I call homeBabylon, where I resideShe's a cage for every criminalA city built on lies&amp;nbsp;Her patrons fall to thei..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/296748/</link>
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			<title>Revelation (End of a Masquerade)</title>
			<description>That is what i really am.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/293432/</link>
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			<title>Car vs. Cliff</title>
			<description>No.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/293403/</link>
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			<title>I'm In Hate With You</title>
			<description>When you love someone you know you shouldn't...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/287574/</link>
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			<title>My Joshua</title>
			<description>He is my favorite mistake.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/282158/</link>
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			<title>I Love...</title>
			<description>These are the things I love.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/264816/</link>
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			<title>Conform to My Rebellion</title>
			<description>Addressing the world's iminent self-destruction</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/262446/</link>
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			<title>My Ballet</title>
			<description>I'm caught up in the tangled steps of Life's tango... and am loving every second of it.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/261665/</link>
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			<title>I am Icarus Falling</title>
			<description>I am Icarus- fallingInto oblivion belowCrashing into certain doomAnd things I do not know&amp;nbsp;I flew on wings of waxThen I began to meltMy whole life dripped awayAlong with the love I'd felt&amp;nbsp;I am Prometheus- chainedForced into sufferingMade to pay the priceAs if it wa..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/254936/</link>
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			<title>The Burning Earth</title>
			<description>I watched the Earth go up in flames,And held her ashes in my hand;The beautiful planet steeped in filth and decay,Ran rampant with the rogues and damned.&amp;nbsp;The fire burned for years on end,Leaving nothing but a shell;As the remnants of a funeral pyre,Paradise turned to Hell.&amp;nbs..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/254827/</link>
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			<title>And We Shall Never Be...</title>
			<description>Another vain attempt at a sonnet :)</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/253564/</link>
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			<title>New Colors, New Life</title>
			<description>I've seen so many new colors lately, and I wish I could show you them all....</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/253558/</link>
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			<title>Dear Boy, Love Girl</title>
			<description>A letter to someone that I usually can't find the words for.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/250427/</link>
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			<title>Sudden Realizations</title>
			<description>*smile*</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/246379/</link>
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			<title>A Monologue For the Broken Heart</title>
			<description>The title says it all.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/246137/</link>
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			<title>The Number Zero (My Apologies)</title>
			<description>A free verse poem to my ex-boyfriend. Cliche, but yet so true.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/246126/</link>
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			<title>Unrealistic Expectations (Lead to Utter Disappointment)</title>
			<description>I've wasted so much time on you.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/244357/</link>
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			<title>Life in Fast-Foward</title>
			<description>I've skipped through all the good parts.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/243449/</link>
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			<title>Hey You (Is There A Cure?)</title>
			<description>Inspired by Pink Floyd, masters of the lyric.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/242610/</link>
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			<title>Don't Let Me Stop You.</title>
			<description>My boyfriend has come into the habit of leaving me to go be with his friends. When he's with them, he's a totally different person. He's someone that I don't like. He becomes someone ugly. He does things that he shouldn't... I try to stop him, but can't.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/237025/</link>
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			<title>Sounds of a Breakdown</title>
			<description>My thoughts run rampant-What have I done wrong?I try so hard to please you,But I always end up alone...&amp;nbsp;I walk among demons-Who attack and try to tear me down.They say things I don't want to hear,Though they never make a sound.&amp;nbsp;I have nowhere to turn-Every angle block..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/236746/</link>
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			<title>Fake</title>
			<description>I don't know what to believe-Somebody's lying, and I can't tell who...Am I surrounded by fakes?I'm desperately hoping that it isn't you...&amp;nbsp;I was happy for once.But now that's all gone away...Rumors murdering my happiness,Bleeding with every word they say.&amp;nbsp;My mind is twi..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/236743/</link>
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			<title>Dear Victoria</title>
			<description>A look at my life from another's perspective.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/227203/</link>
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			<title>The Downward Spiral</title>
			<description>Spiralling downward into a blaze of defeated glory</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/225056/</link>
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			<title>If I Could Find the Words...</title>
			<description>This hurts too much...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/225051/</link>
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			<title>Watching Her World Burn Down</title>
			<description>Caught in the blaze...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/223918/</link>
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			<title>Without You, I Am Me</title>
			<description>                                                                                                Without You, I Am Me                        -------------------------------------------                                                                                           ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/217582/</link>
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			<title>Make It Out Alive</title>
			<description>For Kate Singleton. I'm praying for you.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/217051/</link>
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			<title>Ice</title>
			<description>One of my worst nightmares was like this...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/214367/</link>
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			<title>You're My Favorite Song</title>
			<description>Story of my life.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/190363/</link>
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			<title>Implosion</title>
			<description>A look at the darker side of myself...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/187926/</link>
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			<title>He's Gone...</title>
			<description>For a boy I used to know.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/179895/</link>
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			<title>Envy (My Inner Demons)</title>
			<description>There he sleeps In the belly of the beastThe beast that hides inside of meAnd awakens every time he leavesMy inner demon, that deceptive beastShe&amp;rsquo;s my inner hellion, inner freakLies in wait to take over me She christens herself with the name of &amp;hellip;ENVY&amp;hellip;The m..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/176768/</link>
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			<title>Abuse...?</title>
			<description>Disclaimer: I have never been abused. This is just taken from a dark place in my mind.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/176763/</link>
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			<title>Horseshoes and Handgrenades (Close)</title>
			<description>For Cameron</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/harlequin-girl/126909/</link>
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