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			<title>Magic 8</title>
			<description>Do you think me beautiful?Do the touch of my lips and the gaze from my eyes enough to be able to move you?Have you ever found me lovely?Has the laughter of my voice and the kindness in my smile ever swayed you?Does the thought of me make you happy?Are the heart-wrenching tears and&amp;nbsp;bitter-sweet&amp;..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PodunkPrayers/735742/</link>
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			<title>Ghosts of My Past, Soldier of My Present</title>
			<description>Allow me to sing to you my sweetest, sweetest lullaby,though your ears are virgin to the melody.I have always hiddenso far from your eyes-my shapely body,tender heart, and open soul-yet every bit of mecravesyour taste and your touch;cries out for you before the dawn.Yet you are never there.Listen to..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PodunkPrayers/735738/</link>
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			<title>My Tempest. </title>
			<description>What am I, but a tender soulcrossing paths,clashing swords,&amp;nbsp;seizing my dear friend enigma&amp;nbsp;amongst the storming clouds of even our&amp;nbsp;brightest days.I could sail against your enslaving tides, walloping sea serpents, and&amp;nbsp;ever-widening waters as&amp;nbsp;oceans upon oceans layer me filthy...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PodunkPrayers/735731/</link>
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			<title>Enrage.</title>
			<description>Self-mutilationinto shapes and formsI am unable to decipher;&amp;nbsp;My mind creates twisted monologueswhile my hand stands idly by.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PodunkPrayers/735724/</link>
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			<title>As You Ask Yourself Why You're Still Living</title>
			<description>This one's for you, Dwayne. 
Please-don't fear me.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PodunkPrayers/719468/</link>
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			<title>Love Letter to My Island</title>
			<description>To my dearest desolate Island,It is to you that I have returned after all these years, as a cold hearted and disheveled monstrosity in the presence of such great beauty. Memories of our only summer together bring about so many unarmed sentiments, and I ache to remember all the violently sweet perfec..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PodunkPrayers/707390/</link>
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			<title>Oh, Rapture.</title>
			<description>Wishful thinking, small town dreamin'.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PodunkPrayers/674416/</link>
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			<title>Gentle Apathy</title>
			<description>I don&amp;rsquo;t know what you&amp;rsquo;d call it-fate, orinnocence, which drove that night to where it ended. If I close my eyes I amstill able to make out the distant twinkle of stars as the heat rose visibly,wrapping around the darkened canvas of sky, blanketing the evening. The moonstood visib..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PodunkPrayers/674399/</link>
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			<title>Vanity</title>
			<description>Not all of us are built this way.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PodunkPrayers/673892/</link>
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			<title>Velveteen Lullabies</title>
			<description>We all have our times.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PodunkPrayers/640612/</link>
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			<title>Salinger Never Meant This</title>
			<description>This one's for you, Holden.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PodunkPrayers/639747/</link>
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			<title>Suicide Scenes</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;Viewing life through my&amp;nbsp;detrimental gazeI'm swinging low by a spool of threadI cling to youI cling to thisI cling to now.The blankest pages hold the deepest thoughtsmeaningsI'm at a loss for where I put them all.This lifemy life-Is it everything they made it out to b..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PodunkPrayers/639746/</link>
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			<title>Lullaby for the Restless.</title>
			<description>Headlights upon shadowscorners plagued by innocence and youth;your strength and brilliancefrighten you.Scattered beats of scattered heartstorment,enrage.Petty fools in the dark of the nighttempt hell the syndromeas it slashes the gravity within.No doubt,beautiful disasters eras..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/PodunkPrayers/639738/</link>
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			<title>Belonging.</title>
			<description>Questions left unanswered. </description>
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