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			<title>Surfeit sans sic-squalid spoiled sm&amp;ouml;rg&amp;aring;sbord salvaged</title>
			<description>the eruption of mental health issues thwarted ambition to remain steadfast amidst the tsunami of social anxiety.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3131699/</link>
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			<title>Speaker of the House</title>
			<description>i'm nearly one thousand percent certain that nearly everyone in the world owns an amazon alexa speaker, which play on words serves that role, who right now happens to be mike johnson.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3131616/</link>
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			<title>A fortnight moratorium trumpeted against further bombing Iran,</title>
			<description>the self control for the Iranian government NOT to take retaliatory action, but hopefully a blockade at the Strait of Hormuz will punch down the foolish aggression of the president of United States.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3131508/</link>
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			<title>Brief Introduction before the end of the world...</title>
			<description>listening to the foreboding news led my thoughts down an apocalyptic rabbit hole.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3131376/</link>
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			<title>Amazon Alexa Echo number four enroute to apartment b44</title>
			<description>i tell myself not to get bogged down with electronic paraphernalia, and here amazon alexa echo rules my world.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3131245/</link>
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			<title>Requisite recertification (for us) to remain...</title>
			<description>every year ah=bout this time i need to complete paperwork in order to benefit from the reduced rent here, a low income quiet as a cemetary apartment complex.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3131174/</link>
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			<title>As one among countless billions of homo sapiens, sapiens</title>
			<description>herewith just one groveling and sniveling twenty first century Neanderthal man i claim that nom de guerre cuz about one percent of my genetic material matches said early bipedal hominid.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3131108/</link>
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			<title>April fools' day - ordinarily all manner of tomfoolery abounds</title>
			<description>scrolling thru my online collection of poems, i came to one that nearly upended civilization as we know it about a half dozen dirty deeds done dirt cheap years ago.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3130834/</link>
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			<title>Setting the stage for new life</title>
			<description>i fictionalized a salacioud event in my life of thirty bumpity bump bump years of marriage.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3130763/</link>
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			<title>Booted out of bed...again</title>
			<description>time and again with fail my legs twitch uncontrollable sending the missus in a tizzy and booting me out of bed where i find myself dizzy.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3130604/</link>
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			<title>Death and dying taboo subjects...</title>
			<description>after receiving our first message/tech from my elder sister undergoing chemotherapy, i felt relieved cuz her voice sounded strong and resident.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3130518/</link>
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			<title>Absent concupiscence no longer grieves me not</title>
			<description>nothing i wrote here and posted ranks as truth, but my initial intend constituted trying to describe a dramatic downward plunge with libidinal longings since being on nine prescription medication. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3130419/</link>
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			<title>No matter death stalks so close...</title>
			<description>once again i meandering along the stream of consciousness regarding the dimension of the afterlife, and when just a newborn the incipient beast of burden omnipresent.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3130299/</link>
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			<title>A brother laments the potential terminal outcome..</title>
			<description>this plus a couple of my last posted poems deals with potential illness becoming terminal; namely death of a beloved sister undergoing chemotherapy, but a prognostication gnaws at the back of my mind.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3130251/</link>
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			<title>After I die...</title>
			<description>the omnipresent existence of the grim reaper becomes more closer to me now because my eldest sister enduring a rough patch of chemotherapy &amp; she lacks the strength 2 muster maintaining communication.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3130216/</link>
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			<title>Climate change foists severe challenges...</title>
			<description>after reading about the triple digit March heatwave in a fair extent of the country, i could help to think what dog days of summer will be like.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3130141/</link>
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			<title>Rooted system of a down caste soiled sport</title>
			<description>the amazing subterranean webbed wide world opens another dimension and holds spellbinding fascination, where this homo sapien will join the underground after passing away, whereat his ashes sprinkled.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3130057/</link>
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			<title>Eldest sister of mine under divine hands...</title>
			<description>the potential demise of a loving camaraderie with a sister, whose treatment for the BIG C - began three days ago, and will be exhausting upon her body, mind and spirit, yet knowing love 4 her abounds.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3129827/</link>
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			<title>Quiet of an early morning</title>
			<description>that slice of nirvana before the surge of humanity surges forth onto the streets meander like a overflowing river heading to their imponderable destinations within the cyber sea.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3129760/</link>
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			<title>Matthew O' Harris Ease A &quot;FAKE&quot; Irishman fair one day</title>
			<description>thou nary hush red ove i rush within me blood, your truly doth don the em riddled isle juiced far thee phone of it.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3129696/</link>
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			<title>Beware The Ides of March 2026</title>
			<description>years ago, i wondered what other significant local or global events occurred on the fifteenth of march, which sole known to me then happened to be the murder of julius caesar at the hands by a group. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3129488/</link>
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			<title>Absolute zero degrees tolerance...</title>
			<description>as a hermit, i thrive on solitude and experience social anxiety when among of village people unbeknownst to me, a foo fighting beastie boy.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3129451/</link>
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			<title>Revised but Sixpence none the Richer nor more comprehensible version</title>
			<description>a cancer diagnosis found me re-evaluating the instances when i could have been more emotionally supportive to siblings, parents - deceased, and two daughters.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3129348/</link>
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			<title>Without the easy chair, I would find myself in the doghouse</title>
			<description>i let my fingers slide across the keyboard hoping the words would eventually coalesce into some comprehensive logical theme 
+ incorporate this bane of restless leg syndrome, a side effect medication.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3129274/</link>
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			<title>My bad mistook the dumpster being emptied as an approaching thunderhead</title>
			<description>a thunderstorm yesterday prompted me to confuse the sound of the dumpster being empty, which dump truck within earshot of where we life in a suburban tract of vinyl city.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3129202/</link>
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			<title>I (and my double entendre) shrieked at long last...</title>
			<description>i am trying a new style - i.e. not harried, nor swiftly tailored, but letting the threads of my mind unspool as they may and cutting and pasting to affect the mos satisfaction</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3129121/</link>
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			<title>March 10th, 2026 felt like any other Aestival day</title>
			<description>quite a quantum leap into summer when just a few scant weeks ago old man winter ruled the world.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3129037/</link>
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			<title>Off the seismograph aftershocks</title>
			<description>while seated in front of the computer, i let thoughts and ideas tumble freely and like most endeavors eventually some words triggered linkedin emotions, and thus an attempt got made to record the day.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3128984/</link>
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			<title>Oh my Guinness!</title>
			<description>i receive and read the weekly issue of The Week magazine, and immediately turn to the back of publication 2 enter writing contest, and although my blurbs never mustard enough bite a short story begat.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3128928/</link>
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			<title>Women have historically marched to their own beat</title>
			<description>the world must adopt a matriarchal paradigm in order for the species designated as Homo sapiens collapses into a Uriah Heep of Dickensian rubble.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3128583/</link>
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			<title>Porcine of the times when rooting...</title>
			<description>from a news blurb seen in The Week, I concocted a poem.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3128436/</link>
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			<title>Burning the midnight oil</title>
			<description>a concatenation of fact with fiction - my newly evolved modus operandi when trying to captcha a fleeting idea, and nearly impossible mission to recollect subconscious soon after arising from sleep. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3128290/</link>
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			<title>The compost dumping race for one event only,</title>
			<description>often described as a local &quot;one-off&quot; raceor a singular, non-series event, a, timed,organized competition happened once orperhaps annually in a specific location,namely here at Highland Manor Apartmentsrather than part of larger, branded seriesrequiring each mostly sedentary participantto push a heav..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3128211/</link>
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			<title>When the grim reaper came calling...</title>
			<description>the inevitable end of the road jack/ when yours truly with a knick knack/ for dwelling on end of life thus far beating out a paddy whack.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3128094/</link>
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			<title>On the cusp of recognition</title>
			<description>a tongue in cheek prognostication that I will become a household name posthumously.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3128032/</link>
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			<title>New York Hospital Delivers Its Biggest Baby on Record as Parents Say They 'Didn't Expect This'</title>
			<description>the biggest bad arse baby belongs to the titans of the sporting arena and guarantee an lifetime fortune as can be expected from exploitative scouting agents provocateurs.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3127965/</link>
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			<title>How original idea Larks and Robins...</title>
			<description>balance and swing your partner round and round...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3127824/</link>
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			<title>Playing with figurative fire, I did get psychologically burned</title>
			<description>the fickle fate with befriending women online, which acquaintanceship just humming until out of the blue, the person who initially reached out mentions an urgent financial need such as NO internet -  </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3127664/</link>
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			<title>&quot;You Bot your life infernal algorithm be damned!&amp;rdquo;</title>
			<description>a fictitious social media platform named Moltbook the virtual space artificial intelligent agents can supposedly freely air their grievances.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3127631/</link>
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			<title>Menace to society...</title>
			<description>a round of hardy applause for laurel undertaking.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3127511/</link>
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			<title>I just feel like burrowing under the blankets...</title>
			<description>in summary, the cold weather finds me spending an inordinate amount of time sprawled on the easy chair under countless blankets intending to meditate, but invariably falling into a deep sleep.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3127425/</link>
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			<title>My fraternal female doppelganger half my age...</title>
			<description>an friendship of sorts sprouted when an unknown (and unnamed gal) sent me a heart emoji thru signal app, &amp; no idea how she came upon that information, but interestingly enough she lives fairly close.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3127351/</link>
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			<title>TILL CHIKKI</title>
			<description>a tasty morsel purchased on impulse after we went to the pottstown social security office.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3127118/</link>
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			<title>Squeaky clean Yiddish-er vaunted as mastermind...</title>
			<description>once again i repurposed a writing contest for The Week which host a challenge to craft with seven or less words a catchy phrase given a blurb.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3126934/</link>
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			<title>Feedback from me regarding FUSIAN sushi</title>
			<description>years ago myself and the missus went hog wild stashing our cart with FUSIAN sushi available at ALDI'S, but lo...the food product no longer sold, and perhaps even manufactured.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3126796/</link>
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			<title>After bombs away dropped from the skies</title>
			<description>the doomsday clock ticked closer to the irrevocable debacle that could befall not only humanity, but many species of flora and fauns.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3126675/</link>
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			<title>As a somewhat shy modest individual...</title>
			<description>i struck up an online rapport with an administrative person stationed in California in my satisfaction with the HYUNDAI brand since the previous two vehicles + the current Elantra delivered quality.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3126610/</link>
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			<title>Quandary of thinning hair and being strapped for finances to boot...</title>
			<description>i fixate on hair, and consider myself Samson incarnate and fortunate for the missus nothing like Delilah, though she does downplay my minor sadness how once ample tresses no longer hang tough.  </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3126549/</link>
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			<title>Heavyweight boxer Jarrell Miller forced...</title>
			<description>i subscribe to the week, and the last page offers a name the blurb using no more than seven words, and though does yours win, an idea arose to make a poem as a good laugh.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3126506/</link>
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			<title>I neither play nor watch sports...,</title>
			<description>while the hoopla of the olympics broadcast across the webbed wide world i &quot;Turn on, tune in, drop out,&quot; and my thoughts run wild and free.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/hji567/3126437/</link>
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