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			<title>blue skies and pink slips</title>
			<description>late afternoonssitting at the deskfacing the side window in the sweaty efficiencydrinking mickey&amp;rsquo;s malt liquorand banging on the smith coronaI hardly notice the oscillating fan impersonatinga little robot stuck on a floor boardcan barely hear the radio putting out musicor airing another baseba..</description>
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			<title>thirty stories tall </title>
			<description>sweetly your song presentspromisesand stays forever in tunelike a prayerin my mind I hear nothingbut a repeated melodythat is never tiring andalways alive in my dreamsthere is an inescapable part ofyoung lovenever lost between inception and deathsomehow living on above realityalone thirty stories hi..</description>
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			<title>fleeting thoughts and butterfly nets </title>
			<description>I borrowed someone else&amp;rsquo;s thoughtsand pinned them against a blanksheet of papernothing sticks quite right the firsttime so I gathered them togetherand sealed them in a chrysaliswhere they slowly evolved intomy own creation(I tried returning the borrowedthoughts to their original ownersbut they..</description>
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			<title>against the wind</title>
			<description>I pretend I don&amp;rsquo;t see youand then look awaymy eyes focused on myforward movementlest I slip off the shoulderand crash into the waterpedals on concrete raceagainst sails on watereach attacking the windin our own special wayone eye in the rearviewand one at a finish linethat mayor may not be the..</description>
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			<title>there's no place to call home</title>
			<description>there&amp;rsquo;s no going back they saidspeaking omniscientlyfrom their holier than thou propheciestheir interstellar ambitionswent far beyondconceptual matterwent far beyond anythingthis side of the sunspace travel is like a slingshotthey explained in ancient texts blownto pieces and heat-seeking exop..</description>
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			<title>finding your way back home</title>
			<description>friday night limousine ridersspeeding some seventymiles per hourcut up lemons and dispensemargaritas without rocksoutside airport secret policeintercept intelligence andissue search warrantsbriskly escorting illicit ridersto a flight of their lifedropped behind enemy linesgrown boys sober up quickly..</description>
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			<title>the curse of the new moon </title>
			<description>morning light casts long shadowswhere trees amass and grow wildharboring mere mortalssavoring newfound secretsat work in the dimly lit nightwerewolves trail the slender moondigging out curses burieddeep along the wayon the outskirts of the cityearly morning trains whistle andhowl and slowly garner s..</description>
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