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		<description>The original writings of author Derrek Wesley Steven Gaspard</description>
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			<title>castle</title>
			<description>What you see in the mirror is a world, in that world is knowing, knowing, and knowing. Somehow everytime it's a different thing.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/404167/</link>
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			<title>Way down</title>
			<description>Short piece about violence.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/284326/</link>
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			<title>To and fro</title>
			<description>Poem. Love. Sort of.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/280648/</link>
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			<title>The nuance of telling you goodbye.</title>
			<description>I think it's pretty.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/259837/</link>
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			<title>Take Care</title>
			<description>I'd hate to have to spell it out for you.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/256803/</link>
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			<title>Sciencefictionmumbojumbo</title>
			<description>Momentum.&amp;nbsp;The intuitive thought invoking object oriented image engine produced layers of optical stimulus directly to the brain. &amp;quot;It was as a living dream&amp;quot;, stated one deluged person. The odd thing, when you get down to, is through two tiny orbs we observe this world around us a..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/255683/</link>
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			<title>The robot is king.</title>
			<description>Dialog. That means two people talking. You ever seen three people talking at once to each other? There is a reason. Dialog.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/253139/</link>
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			<title>Beauty</title>
			<description>Beneath the summer sunWishing I were the only oneTo see the amassing beauty Of the children set to run&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbs..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/252629/</link>
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			<title>Selah</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;A vain attempt at a plea, a cry in the dark with continuous sobbing, a child lost.Receptive arms eager to accept something to latch onto... a stuffed teddy.Stillborn within, a stifled rage of defilement, to be left alone.Need clawed at the babes throat, tore at his insi..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/252627/</link>
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			<title>What you can do with five minutes of your time.</title>
			<description>April 30 2001 Derrek GaspardShall I write of inspiration and calamityThat subtle suburban fireIn the distance burning up like a volcano of lightWith rooftop shingles in flight.Preposterous notions of midget menProposing the very length of their legsStretching distances far beyond the..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/252626/</link>
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			<title>The sack and fiddle</title>
			<description>-----4/30/01Viddle spoke, &amp;ldquo;How do you do?&amp;rdquo;A short sack shrugged mumbling, &amp;ldquo;I&amp;rsquo;ve been better.&amp;rdquo;Viddle veered over to where the sack was slouching, &amp;ldquo;So so? Hmmm?&amp;rdquo;Sack said, &amp;ldquo;Yep.&amp;rdquo;Viddle was a fiddle and fiddle he did.Sack sat back and pl..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/252624/</link>
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			<title>Halo</title>
			<description>3/15/01Laughter in the windEvery moment being perfectGreen grass grows in the distance and I know there are pasturesI think about dreaming under starsAnd the taste of warm breath on my faceSunshine, wakeful smiles, Dust particlesdancing as flakey skin is scratched insom..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/252623/</link>
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			<title>Train</title>
			<description>There's a blind manrolling out on the stonesthat beset himThere's a deaf manmuted by his own mutteringsHe can hear fineSo I stuck my thumb outwaiting for that train namedinfinity to stopIt comes screamingRoll OnLeaves falter in theirstroke downwardAnd the pebbles sh..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/252621/</link>
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			<title>Mechanics</title>
			<description>I force myself to write sometimes even when I have no idea what to write about.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/248724/</link>
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			<title>The short sort of things you expect from me.</title>
			<description>Who is Lance? Is this a metaphore? Is that really funny or is this badly written?!! 
What?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/247953/</link>
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			<title>A pool of satisfaction</title>
			<description>&amp;quot;I wrote this while at work&amp;quot;, confessed the administrative assistant.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/247949/</link>
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			<title>Ugly lonely crazy coward.</title>
			<description>Ugly lonely crazy coward.&amp;nbsp;&amp;ldquo;I decided to sleep for a long long time&amp;rdquo;, he said. Deeply he wrapped himself in his lethargical pain, sleeping to quench the undeniable feelings overcoming his mind.He sleeps, time disappears.She wanted to wake him up. She stood where he should see..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/230530/</link>
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			<title>Masks</title>
			<description>Here we areDisguised for eyeswith a conceived point of viewHiding away the Iand youWishing to resolvethe difference we feelwhich conflicts withour decieving apealJesus, save me fromwho I pretend to beLet your truth resideinside of methis mask falls awayyou love me for w..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/230527/</link>
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			<title>blazefair</title>
			<description>My face sunbathesTurning brown against a dull blue and grey skyThe ground throbs white, perspiring smokey mistAn unbelievable monthAn unbelievable dayAn unbelievable afternoonBut all I can see is skyAll I can feel is coldMemories from all the days when I almost slipped and fell fin..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/230525/</link>
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			<title>She was mad.</title>
			<description>Something I might put some time into, I don't know yet.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/230520/</link>
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			<title>We human being born of the dust</title>
			<description>If you were to define yourself, on a completely two dimensional level, how would you do it? Who or what would you be? Me? Me, I would stab at the dark, one darkly stabbing and say I&amp;rsquo;m a prime. One of those numbers that can&amp;rsquo;t be divided up.... Something uniquely unportionable. I know this..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/216436/</link>
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			<title>Horsedrawn</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;A dissertating letter of addressing to one who will be 10/10/05&amp;nbsp;Sing to me&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/216429/</link>
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			<title>Young men, Tall Shadows</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Two black birds were talking as they stood in a puddlein a green field of low cut grass. White flower blossoms had peaked throughthe cropping, making a periodic break from the greenery that seemed toextend forever. In the far distance were pine lined up in everygreen glory,..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/216425/</link>
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			<title>Whose turtle will four fit?</title>
			<description>Waves of heat filled the earth with roasting power. Many years of life comforted the turtle's mind, it would live through this. Water was scarse. It had traveled too far from the cooling trees. A retreat back would take too much effort. .. it could feel the heat crawling all up it's insides...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/216408/</link>
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			<title>Coping with a down day</title>
			<description>Blue</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/216407/</link>
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			<title>Easy</title>
			<description>Very short muse</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/216404/</link>
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			<title>Trey</title>
			<description>I saw your shadow lifting from another&amp;rsquo;s face it was the suns throw stretching far the evidence of your standing erect&amp;nbsp;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/216403/</link>
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			<title>Clearing out the heart</title>
			<description>Realizing I needed to clear some clutter on the inside I wrote the things out that needed to be removed.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/216400/</link>
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			<title>All of me is changing</title>
			<description>A struggle to stand. A few soft points but a good poem over all</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/216397/</link>
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			<title>An untitled breath</title>
			<description>When we lack, we find</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/216395/</link>
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			<title>I watch it crawl over the castle building at Saint Anselm</title>
			<description>Reflecting on time</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/216391/</link>
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			<title>Fool</title>
			<description>Mr.Fool was sitting as he pleased, knuckles pressed on the ground and a crude smile on his lips. &amp;quot;You're a good girl dear sister, though I do believe your ambitions are too high.&amp;quot; He spoke softly looking up at the thin figure of his flighty sibling. &amp;quot;Shoosh you,&amp;quot; she smiled and s..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/fathem/216387/</link>
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