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			<title>Taking out the garbage</title>
			<description>Snow sticks to my boots like old words from my mother</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/2106000/</link>
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			<title>A stranger's bed</title>
			<description>for Sarah</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/2105988/</link>
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			<title>two quarters</title>
			<description>i think i'm growing up today</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/1685916/</link>
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			<title>because those goddam giddy young men...</title>
			<description>poem about being masculine</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/1602352/</link>
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			<title>cookie cutter</title>
			<description>based on actual events</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/1369402/</link>
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			<title>drifting</title>
			<description>two brains shimmer in between veins of streetlamps</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/1293244/</link>
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			<title>midnight</title>
			<description>his eyes are open or even alive to pulses of motion </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/1291820/</link>
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			<title>canvas</title>
			<description>the brush doesn't
know there is a hand</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/1254008/</link>
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			<title>hatch</title>
			<description>a chaos hatches inside</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/1189198/</link>
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			<title>alone</title>
			<description>only the lonely ones have scars</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/987520/</link>
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			<title>pump</title>
			<description>he wishes for water or even the simple allure of nectar</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/986585/</link>
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			<title>whirling</title>
			<description>sweat sticks to his spine &amp;#8232;like the crease of a fresh book&amp;#8232;</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/824762/</link>
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			<title>the man in the hat</title>
			<description>i brake softly still wrapped in plastic feelings</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/824757/</link>
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			<title>dotting the i</title>
			<description>fuel-injected birds narrate the churning traffic</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/772065/</link>
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			<title>blind</title>
			<description>he agrees for ten minutes until baby Narcissus stumbles out of his tender pram</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/713633/</link>
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			<title>Rooted</title>
			<description>Musings about the psychology of people.</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/703987/</link>
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			<title>surfaces</title>
			<description>crumbs crawl into the painted veins of her jeans</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/695334/</link>
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			<title>routine</title>
			<description>molding them into his coffin of thoughts</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/672519/</link>
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			<title>visitors</title>
			<description>the headlines rinse his thoughts</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/652177/</link>
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			<title>the workers' prayer</title>
			<description>during work between the pulse of my ballpoint drawing fast cartoons</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/624364/</link>
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			<title>plastic II</title>
			<description>her shoulders are the scaffolding we use to build paper pyramids</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/623054/</link>
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			<title>the old armchair</title>
			<description>kill the commercial white noise</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/623052/</link>
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			<title>buckle</title>
			<description>tread softly for you tread on my dreams - W.B. Yeats</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/603761/</link>
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			<title>plodding</title>
			<description>ghosts are only the bones we choose to play with at night</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/595588/</link>
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			<title>traffic</title>
			<description>jacket is too big and his smile too generous</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/590161/</link>
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			<title>castle</title>
			<description>you may start
to learn to focus a pair of
jittery eyes on the lonely horizon</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/579676/</link>
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			<title>the one he buried</title>
			<description>this morning he sat on his bed and watched the blister events whirl</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/572025/</link>
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			<title>plastic</title>
			<description>poem written right after washing the dishes</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/571354/</link>
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			<title>the nighttime singer</title>
			<description>those voices sucked up their
cold hands</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/556247/</link>
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			<title>the porcelain telephone</title>
			<description>it was Christmas morning...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/552081/</link>
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			<title>pre-ramble</title>
			<description>the pub does that when you&amp;rsquo;ve been there long enough and watched that fairy in the glass</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/548381/</link>
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			<title>just because</title>
			<description>every morning he watches porn</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/535140/</link>
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			<title>below</title>
			<description>Is it possible to feel unfinished with your own emotions?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/530811/</link>
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			<title>Choose</title>
			<description>how to find inspiration when writing a poem</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/515430/</link>
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			<title>Prayer for my Father</title>
			<description>A tribute to my old man</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/508789/</link>
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			<title>distance</title>
			<description>when i hold a book</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/506549/</link>
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			<title>three spiders</title>
			<description> the spiders climbed
with molten eyes</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/506547/</link>
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			<title>behind</title>
			<description>the wooden man behind the camera</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/494253/</link>
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			<title>woman in the rain</title>
			<description>she'd lie awake at night trying to scrape off the headlines</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/486433/</link>
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			<title>it's contagious y'know</title>
			<description>all he can do is chatter to the chaos city while wearing a mask and pretending to dance in the embryo glory</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/480622/</link>
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			<title>growing</title>
			<description>a fun enough thrill to kill kittens</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/480621/</link>
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			<title>people paradox</title>
			<description>society has a strangebrainit spluttersand collect cumulativequestions in politicalrubbish bags&amp;nbsp;(it throws out grassfor the people to smoke)&amp;nbsp;rampant refugees spill out ofthe communal cereal bowlschiseled coco pops - scamperingunder the portable police shoes&amp;nbsp;..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/470081/</link>
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			<title>reveal</title>
			<description>a stream-of-consciouness babble</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/470080/</link>
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			<title>the can-man</title>
			<description>he could not hear the music</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/470079/</link>
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			<title>blanket</title>
			<description>words become an alloy to my copper-colored tears</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/466860/</link>
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			<title>anomaly</title>
			<description>a bleached pinnochio with tin skin
</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/466859/</link>
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			<title>no more lies</title>
			<description>armed with the voice of Iron Maiden</description>
			<image></image>
			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/466855/</link>
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			<title>alley kiss</title>
			<description>that night the waitergirls seemed swamped with a sticky sympathy </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/466850/</link>
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			<title>the common complaint</title>
			<description>all poems are meant to rhymeand unravel all theirconscious contentlike a naked stripper-They say&amp;nbsp;Lab rat material, untilit's pumped with theory(documented)by the page, andso exact, by the end you can number the veins&amp;nbsp;(but forget the name)&amp;nbsp;It's all just so..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/466422/</link>
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			<title>hands</title>
			<description>all those used tubes spattered into the box along with clippings of faces</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PhilosopherPoet/466011/</link>
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