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		<description>The original writings of author Omily</description>
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			<title>August 15th</title>
			<description>I fail at this.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/591982/</link>
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			<title>Metamorphosis</title>
			<description>I'm writing this as I come off of a terrible acid trip. No hallucinations, or just barely. I mean, with acid, you've got to have some hallucinations. I caught myself standing in my doorway feeling absolutely miserable because I heard a voice and I didn't know whether I should follow it or not. I d..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/587450/</link>
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			<title>Withdrawals</title>
			<description>I don't need any mind altering chemicalsTo enhance the experienceOf being with you.I get that kind of high That comes withObsessive infatuation,A stone wall face plant loveLike I sprinted into you,And once I fell,Getting up Was a&amp;nbsp;sensational conception.&amp;nbsp;And when I..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/552095/</link>
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			<title>Hollywood Conditioned</title>
			<description>I must be in a movieBecause sometimes I hit pauseAnd I'll taste the rewind Like a bittersweet treatThat can give you food poisoningOr give you a high, like a leap,Like a climax, when you jump 100 stories with held breaths to feelIf someone is standing between You and concrete wit..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/551190/</link>
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			<title>Transparency At Its Finest</title>
			<description>I am a glass menagerieAll&amp;nbsp;of the timeAnd mostly I reap the fruitsOf falsehood Like a manipulated assembly lineOf mutilated expressionsScreaming self denial&amp;nbsp;But most timesI forget that I'm not opaqueA lot of people forget that I'm not opaqueAnd sometimesI remember,..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/542229/</link>
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			<title>The Poisonous Bubble</title>
			<description>It's like when articulation becomes just another wordLodged between lips locked shutIt's like the curse of the writer when you have a bird In your lungs and it's a vultureBut you want it to be a doveAnd all you have is ambiguous imageryTo describe an itch that just can't be conveyedA..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/541951/</link>
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			<title>Hate Child</title>
			<description>Let's spit words at each otherUntil they grow and pile into offspringLike a love child, but more like a hate childAnd it's teething so it gnaws on everythingIn its path that was good and sweetBut now it's sour,And I won't waste another hourLetting this child growSo let's kill it&amp;..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/537858/</link>
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			<title>Your Work of Art</title>
			<description>I am neutral clay waiting for your hands to mold meSo make me somethingShape me to fulfill your magical imaginarySurreal unbelievable fantasyAnd I will be your forest nymphOr your mermaid or your glimpseOf an angel or I'll parade As your f*****g goddessOr masqueradeAs something b..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/536681/</link>
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			<title>White Dwarf Fog</title>
			<description>Star studded fogs start to passWhen those fireballs vaporizeInto petty white dwarfsAnd you feel like you've jumped on a trainThat you used to watchFrom your care free carAs it sat at An impatient fingertip tapping Exasperated sigh railroad crossing--&amp;nbsp;And you feel like you'..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/533201/</link>
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			<title>Wings Can Heal</title>
			<description>I am not a sad, wounded puppyLike you flatter yourself to believeI am a Peregrine falconA predator, kindredIn heartlessness to the sirensThat swallow a sailor's iron ego&amp;nbsp;So let me goTend to my broken wingsAnd let me shatter you as I singA song of lost pride vengenceAs I ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/532039/</link>
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			<title>That S****y, Sucky Feeling</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;The sun&amp;rsquo;s coming out,&amp;rdquo; my mom said cheerfully, smiling peacefully as she stared out the screen door at that brightening golden orb in the sky. First, I thought, how ironic. Second, I thought, how appropriate. It&amp;rsquo;s like the weather was set for my life as some kind of soundt..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/530815/</link>
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			<title>That Thing in Fairy Tales</title>
			<description>I remember how I shut my eyes,An effort to denyHow they laid on youFrom that very first time.&amp;nbsp;They saw that thingIn fantasiesFantastic fairy talesAnd yet, I hail From above From these sugar coated dreams;I deem myself a pragmatistA realistFree from this fluff,This ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/528984/</link>
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			<title>Two-In-One</title>
			<description>You're the kind of person that makes me want to write. You make me want to document all of our experiences, like notes, or maybe more like a Polaroid snap shot, so that I can hold onto the memories with everything I have. With you and me, the memories are gems that I just can't let slip through the ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/524826/</link>
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			<title>Definiton of Fine</title>
			<description>&quot;Fine&quot; was bleached of its meaningLong agoWhen a rolling snowball of colorsOf a summary of all Recorded feelingAvalanchedSplatOn that throw around wordAbsurdly devoidOf all the employedPractical definitionsImplying It is the complete collectionOf a rainbow of passionsTh..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/524535/</link>
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			<title>Made For Each Other</title>
			<description>The ending still applies. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/523262/</link>
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			<title>Anxiety (Un)clarified</title>
			<description>The best way I can describe itIs a broken filterSucking in scenarios with hypersensitivityOff kilterSpewing out tainted content uncontrollablyIt pilfersMy sincerity, sense of superiority Self respectabilityAnd the majority of timeI'm left with blind Spots to realityWithout re..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/523192/</link>
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			<title>My Desperate Grasp</title>
			<description>A poem.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/523191/</link>
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			<title>If I Fall</title>
			<description>A poem.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/522591/</link>
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			<title>Vulnerable at Its Worst</title>
			<description>A poem.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/522378/</link>
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			<title>A Knot</title>
			<description>My heart is a knot on a stringOr ten stringsOr maybe hundredsAnd at one time, I wanted it untangledBut now, I know, That would leave me undone. I just want you to seeThe simple complicatedBeauty of the knot. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/522220/</link>
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			<title>Junior High Heart Song</title>
			<description>A poem.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/521510/</link>
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			<title>Touching the Quiet</title>
			<description>A poem.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/520563/</link>
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			<title>Words Can't Describe</title>
			<description>I wish I could make this relatableIn wordsAll I haveAll I have is language in a jumbleLike intestinesWaiting to be strung out, a coherent ropeFrom my lipsFingertips on my skullFrom this migraine of babbleVerbal vomitI wishI just wishI could put into words.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/520071/</link>
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			<title>Mind Games</title>
			<description>Let's play a mind gameI'll use your mind as fair gameFor huntingAnd chase you down a slippery slopeWhere all hope is eradicated;I hunt a siamese twinSawed through the middleAnd your better halfWas left to be consumed--Now, I just have to find you. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/520053/</link>
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			<title>Invader</title>
			<description>I am sucked dry And I amI am inside of youAbiding by the rules of natureWicked curse, you don't existYou can hear me hissI'll dismiss you With the wave of my handWhen I figure out howI'll resist you-- I'm a snake, and I'm realI feel the seal snap On Pandora's boxThe one I..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/520038/</link>
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			<title>On the Flip Side</title>
			<description>A poem.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/518841/</link>
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			<title>Homewrecker</title>
			<description>A poem.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/516750/</link>
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			<title>You Wonderful People</title>
			<description>It's you wonderful peopleThat get on my last nerve--I don't deserveTo be slapped by sweet nothingsWith lips who are lockedBecause nothing means nothingAnd yet, you still talkBombard meWhen to walkIn straight lines is a privilegeYou think you're chivalrousBy coating my flesh..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/516323/</link>
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			<title>Kiddy Pool</title>
			<description>Brilliant blue eyes,You gave me refugeUntil I foundThey were a two inch puddleWhen I deservedA sea of blue. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/515489/</link>
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			<title>Winter, Winter Go Away</title>
			<description>Winter, winter go awayRush into spring;S u f f o c a t i n gJack Frost, your vampish strangleCorpse dead palms&amp;nbsp;A different angle-- Quadrangle, my ice box fridge: Steal a greener pasture ridgeAbolish winter,That thick side splinter, Splintering hail, renderingMe incapab..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/515486/</link>
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			<title>Severed Spine</title>
			<description>Victims, please noteI am physically incapicitated--Or, if I breach my mindset,Mentally-- however you'll take it;I am verbally emaciatedWhen I speak to you I say ba ba baBarbarian, to the Greeks;I beat me as I speakWith an anatomical iron rodYou stupid freak, f*****g nimrodMay..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/515382/</link>
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			<title>Life Cycle, Light Cycle</title>
			<description>Death is simpleIn allegories and metaphors--We are stars, then We fade to nevermore;But why can't we liveAs stellar nebulas,Infants of lightShrouded in the night?We go out with a bang--Effulgent supernova--No, life isn't overIn a guzzling black hole;The hole is the living, ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/514072/</link>
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			<title>Chewing On Ice</title>
			<description>I'm chewing on ice Because I remember the vicesOf today compared with last night--Of everyday opposed to those weightless timesWhen the sky says goodbyeAnd I, Atlas, am relieved of my sentence.&amp;nbsp;I was free-- It was perfect;I was perfectly aloneThrough the superior stupidity..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/513482/</link>
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			<title>Mourning in a Marshmallow World</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;remember, I was in child-love with you. It was the kind where a child, on a walk in the city, finds a ragged, scruffy old forgotten bear in a ditch beside the sidewalk. He frees himself of his mother's hand, running to the filthy bear, shouting in glee, &quot;Can we keep..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/512204/</link>
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			<title>Abolitionist</title>
			<description>My bondage is untiedAnd I lay in the spotless sunshineOf unrestrained heart-It's a lie- I squeezed limeInto my eyes.&amp;nbsp;I deny itIn part, because of the prideI wish I hadIn part, because of natureAnd my nesting instinctsTo find someone in syncWith my off brand of mystique..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/511222/</link>
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			<title>Rewind</title>
			<description>My smile can be more genuineIf you want.I can backtrack some stepsIf I wind up the clockBefore dawn-Before I beguiled you When my cheeks swelled oddlyWith a flipped rainbow smile.&amp;nbsp;It was not human;Too much&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; thoughtToo much&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; effortToo m..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/510925/</link>
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			<title>A Guide to Shedding</title>
			<description>I forget myselfAlwaysSo I shifty glance sidewaysTo the juxtaposed windowAnd I always anticipateA more desirable viewThat will be betterThan what it is now. &amp;nbsp;I don't want toWear my heart on my sleeve;Yes- I want toWear my heart as a full body suitLike an inside-out cloa..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/509759/</link>
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			<title>Box It Out</title>
			<description>This is an essay I wrote for a class last semester. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/509406/</link>
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			<title>Sodomy Minus Onin</title>
			<description>Inspired by a sexual history class I'm taking.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/509182/</link>
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			<title>Pledge Revised</title>
			<description>I pledge allegiance to the flagOf the United States ofEnergy and chemistry andAll the life squeezed in between,Not to an idol or single cause, but toSanta Clause and menopauseAnd&amp;nbsp;our Lord&amp;nbsp;Byron and dandelions;I'll blame your shameful games for fameOn puberty and lack of n..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/508777/</link>
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			<title>Close Encounter</title>
			<description>I could have killed you.I shuddered, skidding to a halt;I could have killed you,And it would have been my fault- Like when a crusader, mistaken, Pierces the priest's heart, takingHim to be an obstructionTo the Holy Land. &amp;nbsp;You are my goal,My Olympian gold; let meHarness t..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/508716/</link>
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			<title>Zero Equals Zero</title>
			<description>Mr. Liberty-Turned-TerroristSanitized the airOf the world citizensWith chlorine gasSo that, in the end,We may all be equalAnd equally free.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/508537/</link>
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			<title>Who the Rats Are</title>
			<description>This was for a class. I tried to be as accurate with the information and situation as I could with my resources.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/508529/</link>
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			<title>When You Read This</title>
			<description>When you read this, your eyes Will travel with rhythmic precision From word to word collecting thePieces, smooth like honey and drippingLike marmalade, but a little faster,Until you linger and desist at that last period, Steadily drawing a finish to my poem likeYarn you could see the e..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/508526/</link>
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			<title>Warning Label</title>
			<description>Beware of inspirationIt may shake you likeA cataclysmic shiverAnd rock your world.&amp;nbsp;Beware of creativityIt may electrify you,Shock you into beautyAnd spark your genius.&amp;nbsp;Do not stand on the fault-Please,Handle life with rubber gloves-Or&amp;nbsp;Caution: You will cr..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/508524/</link>
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			<title>Unremarkable</title>
			<description>I'm a little darkBut I wish I was light;&amp;nbsp;A graceful, smiling ray of lightTracing a spotted carpet-A cat bathing, silently thanking it,Calling memories of wildflowers:Nostalgia without roots.I would make everyoneWho was touched by me Glad I was here.&amp;nbsp;I am darkI am ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/508522/</link>
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			<title>Tug-Of-War</title>
			<description>It is a game and a testBefore you and I enter UtopiaWhere children run fearlessly and freely,Passing out never-ending daisies.&amp;nbsp;We each grasp a rope end And the challenge part is still invisibleBut we tug instinctively.&amp;nbsp;I pull you in with my seductive auraAnd you inch cl..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/508519/</link>
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			<title>The View From Here</title>
			<description>I look at myselfThrough your eyes, Your fish eye lenses,And I see myselfNot like a person, but likeAn exagerrated stereotypeOf that enigmatic b***hWho entered and exitedFrom center to back stage. Yet, I can't see your eyes;You closed the script And your scene is overBut you w..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/508514/</link>
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			<title>The Power of Poetry</title>
			<description>Don&amp;rsquo;t you hate it whenSomeone writes a vague, cryptic poemExpecting you to waste time&amp;ldquo;Reading between the lines?&amp;rdquo;Isn&amp;rsquo;t it narcissistic of poetsTo hand you a metaphorWrapped in a simileThat&amp;rsquo;s actually a profound paradoxAnd expect, when you uncover its lay..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/508509/</link>
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			<title>The Biggest Playground</title>
			<description>This is a placeFor big children-Not monster children-And we all need to learnSharing and smiling again,Not to abuse our playground,Or we'll slide us with this place &amp;nbsp;Underground. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Omily/508473/</link>
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