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		<description>The original writings of author the wretched</description>
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			<title>Heartbreaks a Motherf*cker, but Why Should I Care?</title>
			<description>tired of you asking when we'll get back together when you're the reason we aren't.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/422063/</link>
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			<title>King of the Trash Heap</title>
			<description>a memoir of a piece of my past</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/418094/</link>
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			<title>Swim</title>
			<description>over my head here</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/415319/</link>
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			<title>all that shimmers is cold</title>
			<description>rough draft</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/388008/</link>
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			<title>The End is Near</title>
			<description>...my heart is dead...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/387991/</link>
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			<title>of self deception and the bleeding heart</title>
			<description>being used sucks</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/384292/</link>
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			<title>In a New England City</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; It's easy to forget you're sleeping on pavement when you're dead tired from another day in the city. As you stumble out of whatever doorway offered shelter for the evening, however, sore and aching limbs make it easy to remember.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Shaking the sleep from my head, I counted..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/363094/</link>
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			<title>The Old Stone Church</title>
			<description>Within a copse of bristled pines,Sleeping 'neath blankets of white,An echo of another time,Fell within my wandering sight.Though drear against the landscape bleak,The grey of stone, and gothic spire,Of times long passed, I hear them speak,And cannot help, but to admire.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/363066/</link>
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			<title>Far, Far Away</title>
			<description>chapter finished? not too sure yet. sorry for the delay.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/363061/</link>
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			<title>Time Moves On</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Many years have passed since those days, but when I close my eyes, I can still see that perfect moment when the sun crested the tops of the buildings and spilled down the sides, a waterfall of light. The way it rolled accross the river, cascading sparkles across the surface, until..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/363060/</link>
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			<title>And That's How It Once Was</title>
			<description>work in progress. I'm hoping this grows into a decent length story. if finished, it will probably be part based on true events, and part fiction.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/362905/</link>
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			<title>Patientia</title>
			<description>the title means &quot;to suffer&quot; or &quot;to endure&quot; in latin</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/362483/</link>
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			<title>Even Though You Broke Me</title>
			<description>an acrostic poem on the love/hate tug of war over a former love</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/362471/</link>
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			<title>misplaced</title>
			<description>poem to an illustration i did</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/352566/</link>
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			<title>Of Growing Weary</title>
			<description>It' only a matter of time</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/351165/</link>
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			<title>Misadventures of Miss Adventure</title>
			<description>a short nonsensical piece i wrote to amuse myself</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/340522/</link>
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			<title>Lecherous Treachory</title>
			<description>waking up to a somnophiliac</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/333540/</link>
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			<title>I Burn Too</title>
			<description>winter is bad for me</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/333396/</link>
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			<title>Down By the Bay</title>
			<description>Places etch themselves on my soul</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/333393/</link>
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			<title>Self Preservation</title>
			<description>partial suicide successfulcut the cancer from the coreprecise incisions were requiredand the very latest curelo, the funeral bells did ringsweeter, the resounding cry,at last, an end to suffering,the stone read, 'here her heart doth lie'</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/333391/</link>
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			<title>Gathering the Pieces of a Scattered Mind</title>
			<description>baby steps through the mindscape of a byproduct of dysfunction</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/333280/</link>
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			<title>Hypocritic Oath</title>
			<description>sometimes i disgust myself.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/333268/</link>
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			<title>Sharp Tongued</title>
			<description>the more you love someone, the easier it is to hate them.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/333262/</link>
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			<title>Dark Half</title>
			<description>occasionally we are our own worst enemies</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/333258/</link>
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			<title>Spare (a) Change</title>
			<description>sometimes retrospect is good. sometimes it comes too late.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/333246/</link>
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			<title>For a Long Time Now</title>
			<description>-or- Make a Wish (De)Foundation</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/333082/</link>
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			<title>The They That is Them</title>
			<description>they do a lot of things. most of them aren't good.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/333080/</link>
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			<title>Life After Death</title>
			<description>everyone makes mistakes. but are they always mistakes?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/333076/</link>
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			<title>Days</title>
			<description>that was now and this is then</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/333075/</link>
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			<title>Self Sabotage</title>
			<description>and revenge</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/333070/</link>
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			<title>Smoke and Starlight</title>
			<description>and a good time was had by all</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/333064/</link>
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			<title>Head Over Heels</title>
			<description>usually hurts</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/333061/</link>
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			<title>La Mer</title>
			<description>collision of reality and daydream</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/333046/</link>
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			<title>Subconcious Plunge Down the Stairs (Falling Awake)</title>
			<description>about a slew of reoccuring nightmares i was suffering through</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/332716/</link>
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			<title>Day Pass</title>
			<description>of being caged</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/332712/</link>
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			<title>Vacation Unit 36 (Code Yellow)</title>
			<description>my past is full of strange times</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/332708/</link>
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			<title>In the Land of the Gods</title>
			<description>at the hands of happenstancetossed about by winds of chancewhilst having neither rein nor tetherfor the Eurus or the Zephyrand all thy passions seem to scatterhard to pluck the ones that mattermost, as Eris finds her crownand all the heavens tumble downbut if thine stay and hold th..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/332704/</link>
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			<title>I Still Love You</title>
			<description>if you look the right way, you'll see it</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/332703/</link>
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			<title>Tread Lightly</title>
			<description>of staying in unhealthy relationships</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/332453/</link>
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			<title>Latrodectus Mactans</title>
			<description>from sorrow to vengance</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/332375/</link>
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			<title>Fortune Cookie</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;they say the chinese use the same word for fortune as they do for misfortune.yesterday, i got a fortune cookie that stated &amp;quot;you will inherit some money or a small parcel of land&amp;quot;.i believe this is a classic example of the chinese use of one word for two opposites.at first gla..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/332356/</link>
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			<title>Hades, My Love</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;you spoke of loveand the words darkly shimmered,glossy and drippingsickly sweet and bitter ashrained downupon the burnt out cities of my heartblood filled the channelsand bending trees grew yeilding strange fruitflowers like fire, and butterflies like dark lashesfluttering ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/332349/</link>
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			<title>13 Lives of Twiggity Magpie ch. 2</title>
			<description>poem 2 of 13</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/332348/</link>
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			<title>The 13 Lives of Twiggity Magpie</title>
			<description>poem 1 in a series of 13 i plan to illustrate and (hopefully) get published. influenced heavily by Dr. Seuss, and Edward Gorey.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/332324/</link>
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			<title>S.O.S.</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;The stars glittered like broken glass,when the hand of fate fell heavy.Watched the sky go screaming past,suns are rising and they're setting.Time won't stop, and i can't move,years speed forward, mind goes back.Caught up in this wicked groove,as often's done, when fate attacks...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/332318/</link>
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			<title>Two Step</title>
			<description>i play the guitar and piano a little. someday i'll be good enough to need these...(i hope)</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/332317/</link>
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			<title>Time is Only Wasted on Those Who Cannot See</title>
			<description>i'm young, and not especially wise, so i could be mistaken. but this time, i'm pretty sure i'm not.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/332302/</link>
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			<title>Don't Look Back</title>
			<description>advice is a bedfellow to retrospect</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/332300/</link>
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			<title>Sometimes I Talk to Myself</title>
			<description>sometimes, i listen.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/332295/</link>
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			<title>Narcoleptic Insomniac</title>
			<description>am i dreaming or am i awake?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dttw04/332291/</link>
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