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		<description>The original writings of author Esoteric Strand</description>
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			<title>Sometimes, A Cannibal May Cry</title>
			<description>The Hills are alive with the sound of eyes/ contains violent imagery not suitable for children or those with stomach conditions.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/712250/</link>
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			<title>234,713th Terrace</title>
			<description>A poem about the unenthralling adventures of Ballsy Eunuch...wait, that has nothing to do with this poem at all...oh well, too late to hit the backspace.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/710461/</link>
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			<title>Mirror-Kissers</title>
			<description>A poem about the trials and tribulations of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdoms.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/698469/</link>
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			<title>Water Dungeon</title>
			<description>There is a hidden Haiku deep within this psychotic piece. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/695072/</link>
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			<title>Do Tell  (lyrical challenge/ speedwrite)</title>
			<description>Rumor has it you have a secret.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/693963/</link>
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			<title>Spider Veined Venus  (word challenge poem)</title>
			<description>The image for this poem would be a crone's hands folded in her lap, bones exposed.  Or, mayhaps a sagging chin of the haggy harridan.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/693552/</link>
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			<title>I Love the One I Can't Stab</title>
			<description>Offensive</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/693125/</link>
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			<title>The Horse Was Not Lost</title>
			<description>gather within the head,like disembodied, disappointed fathers.I strain to calm them, as currents continuethe slow pulver, reducing shouts to whispers.An array of clay minerals dizzies;All rock misconstrued as Gaudi Castles.Gentle falls &amp;#2013266048;&quot; a glass sculpture above me-has won the war with..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/693124/</link>
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			<title>From the Pit</title>
			<description>Offensive</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/693122/</link>
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			<title>Swimming Pigs</title>
			<description>Bizarro in the Bahamas</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/688105/</link>
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			<title>Sharia, my love</title>
			<description>Khalifated</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/686731/</link>
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			<title>We Withered In His Wake</title>
			<description>Certain people should never be met.  Certain people were never meant to be meeted in the first place.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/686726/</link>
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			<title>Enough Dying Breaths To Last A Lifetime</title>
			<description>A poem, d****t, stop asking me to describe s**t</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/686037/</link>
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			<title>Norns At Noon</title>
			<description>I dunno, I think I lost the thread.  This poem feels cut short.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/680041/</link>
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			<title>She's Naked Again</title>
			<description>Loose Muse</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/679078/</link>
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			<title>On the Outskirts</title>
			<description>I find the 'ID' channel a wellspring of inspiration.  Something about Women-In-Peril really gets the juices flowing.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/679074/</link>
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			<title>Beautiful Roadkill</title>
			<description>Behold: Nature's Bounty</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/678065/</link>
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			<title>RUSHIN CAUSEMOENAUGHT  (nawncents VERSE)</title>
			<description>Trouble wants you,bad.An equation that just can&amp;rsquo;t behad.Eastern European man holds a secret, what do youhave?A distraught thought; a fear the cat&amp;rsquo;s been let out thebag.The night nurse showed up but forget to bring hisbadge.Electronic components, do you know your Russi..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/676353/</link>
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			<title>There Are Large Rocks Everywhere</title>
			<description>Gnot Gnearly the Gnosis I gneeded</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/674865/</link>
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			<title>Those That Hide Are Afraid</title>
			<description>Illuminaughty</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/673881/</link>
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			<title>She Won't Stop Changing</title>
			<description>Women should be well-rounded</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/672744/</link>
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			<title>Drones, Clones and Robot Bones</title>
			<description>There goes another sinking Sun,and I&amp;rsquo;m struck dumb with a yearningfor a more emotionless time:&amp;nbsp;Man?&amp;nbsp; Well, he ran all out of World.Just sound asleep in the jagged soil.As the robots toil in the fields,under a pre-programmed drone Sun.One that deletes each day with zea..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/672012/</link>
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			<title>It's Been Said Before And After, Worse And Better</title>
			<description>Some more light-verse</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/669530/</link>
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			<title>Complete Snippets</title>
			<description>100% lacking details</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/668896/</link>
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			<title>This is Gibber-ish</title>
			<description>This is gibber-ish,just warning you.Halfway to meaning something,or partially saying something tosomeonewho doesn&amp;rsquo;t get the point-me in the direction of the suckers-born every second-hand strikes stupid.&amp;nbsp;Why ask:why must there be-more like your Mother-who art in ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/668225/</link>
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			<title>The Grave In Me</title>
			<description>The demands of the dead.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/667887/</link>
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			<title>The Deep Is Not Empty</title>
			<description>Sometimes,one has to feel their way out:lingering fingers over jagged stones,rubbed raw and ragged, ground down to the nubs.Sometimes,one has to fail their way out:no epic crash of thunder...just blunder.Look after the leap. Stutter as you speak.(shudder)Sometimes,one has to flail all about:a scream..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/665910/</link>
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			<title>Trash In the Desert</title>
			<description>hitchhiking gone bad</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/664596/</link>
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			<title>In God's Blindspot</title>
			<description>a poem for the word challenge containing: weary, obscured, anguish, mournful, dejection</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/662029/</link>
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			<title>Time Before Clocks</title>
			<description>ephemera</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/661870/</link>
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			<title>The Earth Is Going Down On Us</title>
			<description>A gentle poem by the enzoid</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/659713/</link>
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			<title>We Are the Loiterers</title>
			<description>Ruins on top of ruins/ the cutting edge of history</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/657620/</link>
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			<title>You're Not A Poet</title>
			<description>Name-dropping gets your disqualified.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/655367/</link>
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			<title>Withering Alongside</title>
			<description>Word challenge poem...I had to use: grandeur, lineage, adulation,  specter, realm, colossus/ speed write (5 mins)</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/654736/</link>
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			<title>Silk Flowers</title>
			<description>A grave poem</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/654675/</link>
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			<title>Wing-Collector</title>
			<description>picture prompt, speed write and half rhymes</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/654670/</link>
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			<title>APPLE-CORE</title>
			<description>dust settles everywhere</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/654666/</link>
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			<title>Muted</title>
			<description>Illegible,or perhaps it&amp;rsquo;s the vision that fades.Horriblehow writing captures heavy-lidded strays.To studyto squint:Research without a testSeek without a teacherMemorize minus a mentorFeverishly taking notesReams of useless handwriting.An eye for detail,and ears for papers tearing.Future trashA..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Esoteric_strand/624530/</link>
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