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			<title>Bright Melancholy Holiday</title>
			<description>A memorial day prose poem
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jaybird168/1362603/</link>
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			<title>Coffee</title>
			<description>&quot;World's&quot; smallest poem, yet wouldnt qualify as a haiku. Thought of quickly whilst pacing the kitchen.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jaybird168/1326812/</link>
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			<title>Vornado</title>
			<description>Created this one in minutes, after witnessing a squall. Words tripped off the tip of my brain, with relative ease this afternoon.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jaybird168/1322399/</link>
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			<title>After hurt, healing begins</title>
			<description>The end result of a &quot;date&quot; with my ex-wife, this afternoon</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jaybird168/1320546/</link>
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			<title>Seductress</title>
			<description>Ode to this morning's erotic dream</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jaybird168/1317015/</link>
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			<title>Winning at Life</title>
			<description>Different definitions of winning. Development of the piece, was an emotional process. Not sure I'd finish. It still may not be &quot;finished&quot;. Time will tell.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jaybird168/1316211/</link>
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			<title>Better Than This</title>
			<description>A small poem, for setting the average moral compass, to something higher.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jaybird168/1313719/</link>
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			<title>Redux to an Un-Happy Argument</title>
			<description>A straightforward, delightfully dark piece, set to real events. You never really know someone, until they fail you.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jaybird168/1308524/</link>
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			<title>Lesson of 1/28 Hospital Stay</title>
			<description>Reflections on staying positive, in a terrible health crisis.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jaybird168/1308386/</link>
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			<title>The truth</title>
			<description>Common variations on the truth</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jaybird168/1292881/</link>
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			<title>The Cap</title>
			<description>Aquatic nature in all its drama</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jaybird168/1292870/</link>
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			<title>Rhinovirus</title>
			<description>A poem about a terrible night with a cold(er, I mean MAN FLU)</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jaybird168/1290298/</link>
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			<title>A Night at the Dojo</title>
			<description>After a 24 hr dry spell, an itch to write about a personal hobby</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jaybird168/1284522/</link>
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			<title>Manipulated and Misconstrued</title>
			<description>My most straightforward-in-meaning, poetry yet. Getting a handle on packaging of pentameter here.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jaybird168/1282519/</link>
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			<title>and They Call it Murderball</title>
			<description>A trip down a wheelchair rugby scrimmage, through my eyes this afternoon.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jaybird168/1282239/</link>
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			<title>Re-publication of &quot;The Cremation of Sam McGee&quot;</title>
			<description>Contributing one of my favorite classic poems. Very pertinent for the record arctic blast about to befall part of the nation! Definitely NOT my work, but worth the read.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jaybird168/1281615/</link>
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			<title>The Christmas Party</title>
			<description>A reflection on the Christmas party, I attended this afternoon. A departure from my darker work. -Jay Steitler</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jaybird168/1279019/</link>
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			<title>Virtue</title>
			<description>A quote for lack of genre</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jaybird168/1276891/</link>
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			<title>The Stick</title>
			<description>My eternal fatiguing relationship with the world of medicos. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jaybird168/1275677/</link>
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			<title>The Scuttling </title>
			<description>Failed rescue of a dysfunctional existence. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jaybird168/1274246/</link>
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			<title>The Marriage</title>
			<description>A very brief synopsis of marriage and divorce</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jaybird168/1273533/</link>
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			<title>Technology</title>
			<description>A poem reflecting upon technology's affect on society, as we now relate.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jaybird168/1273348/</link>
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