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		<description>The original writings of author Bruce</description>
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			<title>No Hummus at Aldi</title>
			<description>	I had weird sex dreams about someone I hated. The crust in my eyes was overwhelming. My bank account was negligible. The erection I had was full tilt.&amp;nbsp; My stiffy was baffling knowing that it was engendered by someone I had complete disdain for.	No booze in 10 days. That was a first. It started..</description>
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			<title>1/0</title>
			<description>You have taken chancesout the doorfrom midnight on.Indirect glances&amp;nbsp;for a prized possession.Take a minuteand swallow your pride.At dawn we wander&amp;nbsp;through the snowdrifts	caked with frost.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/1742327/</link>
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			<title>Lazarus</title>
			<description>	Lost in a daze. I reach for a hand towel to wipe the sweat from my brow. The trainers line up in a row. There are so many vivacious people around. I like to lose myself in the crowd, and avoid eye contact at all times. It was a month bender this time. The poison escapes through my pores with each m..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/1740502/</link>
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			<title>Penance</title>
			<description>Escaping air.I saunter randomly.Wholesale PoisonTake me Down.Wind me upBefore the&amp;nbsp;Fall.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/1740486/</link>
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			<title>Control</title>
			<description>Lost in transmission
one to control forever
never myself again</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/1726515/</link>
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			<title>The Blue Line</title>
			<description>stood there phone drained1%the volume blastsugly looks onthe&amp;nbsp;blue linethe redolence of timid summer girlssoooooo vivaciousand here I am maudlintrying hard to notmake&amp;nbsp;eye&amp;nbsp;contactlinenson my bedunchanged&amp;nbsp;since you leftLittle thingslikeyour f*****g Christmas Muglaughing at meas I st..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/1726506/</link>
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			<title>I saw you standing there.</title>
			<description>	I've seen your face before. Out on Dearborn, cute as a button, a small Yorkshire Terrier. Leaning down to pet you, fear grips your face, and a sudden yelp explodes from your seemingly harmless demeanor. The owner voices that she is sorrow.	&quot;I don't know what has gotten into her today.&quot;	&quot;I think it'..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/1256804/</link>
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			<title>Moral and Physical Decay</title>
			<description>	I have seen the struggle on many a face. The poor insufferable listless people that try to carry themselves with a bit of dignity but are utterly crushed in the melee that is life. The trees seem dead, all of them. My friend Janie thinks I'm crazy.&amp;nbsp;	She works at a lingerie store, and is a lesb..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/1208924/</link>
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			<title>The Relentless Beyond</title>
			<description>everything so&amp;nbsp;beyond my reacha puzzlement gatheringin the ebb tide of my mindI remember your eyesglistening in the sunlightso effervescent, so evanescent&amp;nbsp;my head is in the sandas of right now</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/1208916/</link>
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			<title>The Hydra's Head.</title>
			<description>streaming</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/1157039/</link>
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			<title>Blue Moon</title>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/1110029/</link>
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			<title>Yes</title>
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			<title>Like an Ant</title>
			<description>look at you nowfound quite a look alikethat you think will treat you rightam I the crazy one?Spiders in the nightwill keep you warmnary a thought of you tricklesinto the recesses of my mindstone cold I remainunderneath this handsome visageit was only a matter of timebefore I gamed youin this cruel t..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/1092509/</link>
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			<title>Take It From the Man!</title>
			<description>an ode to Anton Newcombe</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/1092504/</link>
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			<title>Go South!</title>
			<description>follow me</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/1088083/</link>
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			<title>Eruption</title>
			<description>mockery.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/1088081/</link>
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			<title>Bleeding</title>
			<description>watch for drones.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/1088080/</link>
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			<title>You Shook Me</title>
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			<title>The United States of F**k</title>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/1070001/</link>
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			<title>The Devil's W***e</title>
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			<title>token</title>
			<description>2012</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/1014528/</link>
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			<title>Alley</title>
			<description>Desire</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/993536/</link>
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			<title>giving them the high hat ya dig?</title>
			<description>the crucial illusory tangent, a tangerine slithered savory, past the pugilists duking with dimes, California could be home, but i'd never quit this s**t, the chase of the next five and dime high, estrangement from family, stuttering on the phone to a deserted dialtone all the while wondering could t..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/993220/</link>
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			<title>LSD</title>
			<description>Looking up at his deskbeginning to ponderthe last handful of yearslost in a photographtaken a decade agoon a ten year anniversaryin Arubahis wife died of cancersoon after his mistress joined herthe black ice in Chicagohad struck once again on LSD.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/992831/</link>
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			<title>paint it NEON!</title>
			<description>give me a chanceto breathe life anewIn your eyesclothes left behindin an&amp;nbsp;otherwise empty drawerpink and softit would suit you wellthe wickedharlequinthat throws daggersat my headthe hard left, about face, the a*s out hug, the we'll talk soon, I promise.you think you can deal with the smiling fa..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/992805/</link>
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			<title>need/want</title>
			<description>after the stormthe sunshinein my eyeswas too much&amp;nbsp;the dampness&amp;nbsp;remainedon my jacketI felt it odd indeedto suffer suchconsequencefor no prior&amp;nbsp;insolencebut the gods were determinedto take my harvest</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/992694/</link>
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			<title>summer 2010</title>
			<description>	Among the whispering pines outside my window birds were chirping in unison. My sister and I retired long after my mother, but there was no telling when she would go to sleep. While brewing coffee in my shorts I noticed the kitchen I had cleaned the night before was yet again a mess. I knew it was t..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/992693/</link>
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			<title>Beautiful</title>
			<description>you read Henry Miller aloudlegs wrapped around me like a boaat first I was shybut you took meby surprisepassionate eyeslocked inyour little red pantiesadorned my couchlips locked&amp;nbsp;silent embracewe move slowlyin a trancea beautiful dancein the night</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/983281/</link>
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			<title>No Title</title>
			<description>I am not wanting for understanding, simply love and patience.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/979797/</link>
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			<title>Brickz</title>
			<description>what to do when you keep shooting bricks...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/979793/</link>
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			<title>The Beach</title>
			<description>summer 2010</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/967835/</link>
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			<title>1433 W. Berwyn Ave. Chicago Il.</title>
			<description>summer 2010</description>
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			<title>Edict</title>
			<description>2012</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/966564/</link>
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			<title>Urban</title>
			<description>duplicate</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/965973/</link>
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			<title>Stratego</title>
			<description>a satirical play on roman politics as if it were in a modern setting.</description>
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			<title>Ghost</title>
			<description>2012</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/965955/</link>
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			<title>saturday's follies engender sunday morning lament</title>
			<description>lay in bed all daywondering if it was a nightmareremnants of a torrid passiongone so violently awryspread across the roomlike a chain of things forgottenthe smiles and laughter sharedjust a few hours priorreplayed in my mind a thousand timeswords like venom spit by both sidesthe boys in blue tell me..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/964709/</link>
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			<title>The Nihilist, the Clepto, and the Jack of all Trades</title>
			<description>	&quot;Three to four of them ran that way.&quot;	&quot;You think it was one of those flash mobs?&quot;	&quot;What the hell is that?&quot;	&quot;It's where they go into like a dancing routine, and they just danced away with a ton of our merchandise Phil.&quot;	Decker ran down Van Buren until he hit the Harold's Chicken, he would meet up wi..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/951376/</link>
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			<title>the visitors</title>
			<description>a party gone terribly awry</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/920950/</link>
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			<title>Something my father wrote.</title>
			<description>so true</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/893188/</link>
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			<title>Thank Goodness for small pleasures.</title>
			<description>a day in the loop</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/887044/</link>
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			<title>A Digital Trace</title>
			<description>it can all come back to haunt you.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/840936/</link>
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			<title>A Curious Case.</title>
			<description>A mystery.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/839304/</link>
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			<title>Ribbed for her Pleasure</title>
			<description>a dream I had last night.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/831126/</link>
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			<title>SPF 50</title>
			<description>Upon yonder hills fires burn downa withered townRumor has ita widow died tragicsnakecharmed by a soothsayerwho moonlit as a mandolin playerall it took was a whispera sigh turned to whimper&quot;My you are limber.&quot;he would say with a laugh.but the pantomime had dropped the dimeon h..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/831115/</link>
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			<title>Loneliness</title>
			<description>In the cold dead nightthere is little solacesave a sweet memoryof your soft skinwarm to the touch&amp;nbsp;New Years Evethe aircharged with the notion of rebirth&amp;nbsp;but I knowthat promiseswritten on the backof cocktail napkinsare seldom kept&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/829945/</link>
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			<title>Slave</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;shift your weight onto mecolliding fleshand hot candle wax this fire burnswithout remorsewhere is your god?the one you cry out to in the nightdoes he knowhow you like to be fucked?&amp;nbsp;languishing under the cover of darkness&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/829943/</link>
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			<title>No</title>
			<description>the posturing of yesterday
a midnite
cannibal
sits 
on a perch of cracked skulls
reticent
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/829612/</link>
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			<title>Suicide Blonde</title>
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			<title>Background music for a snuff film</title>
			<description>exactly how it sounds.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/bruce/829605/</link>
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