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			<title>From the Dark of New Orleans</title>
			<description>Remember me?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/965979/</link>
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			<title>For F**k's Sake</title>
			<description>I'm no spoken word poet.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/737178/</link>
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			<title>This is Not About Growing Up.</title>
			<description>Steal everything.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/735412/</link>
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			<title>Watch the Sky</title>
			<description>I can't tell if it's happy or sad, but I like it.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/727386/</link>
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			<title>And the Sun Set Screaming</title>
			<description>I like these picture-first, poem-later games.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/724722/</link>
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			<title>The Jury</title>
			<description>More inspired by than based upon.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/723654/</link>
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			<title>Offworlder</title>
			<description>Points to you if ya understand the picture.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/720705/</link>
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			<title>The Endless East</title>
			<description>Progress is illusion. Move forward long enough and you wind up where you were.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/717246/</link>
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			<title>Double Notes</title>
			<description>Don't you forget about me.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/714191/</link>
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			<title>Scarecrow</title>
			<description>SpokenWord challenged me to write this poem, so I did.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/709616/</link>
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			<title>Chimera</title>
			<description>Sometimes I go bump in the night.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/709123/</link>
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			<title>Of Sin and Shadow</title>
			<description>Just a little sparkle to go with your rainbow.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/708358/</link>
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			<title>Crumbling Dictionaries and the Beds You Leave Behind</title>
			<description>The longest word in this poem is cigarettes.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/707244/</link>
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			<title>Sanzen</title>
			<description>Ever the optimist.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/706453/</link>
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			<title>Singularity Heart</title>
			<description>This poem was better before I wrote it.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/706315/</link>
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			<title>Skeletal</title>
			<description>This is what happened the first time I tried to write Be Easy, Rockstar. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/706142/</link>
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			<title>Vicious</title>
			<description>Hell hath no fury.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/705926/</link>
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			<title>Pillars</title>
			<description>I took this poem out behind the shed and shot it. Then it followed me back in.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/705627/</link>
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			<title>Revengineering</title>
			<description>The shape was an excuse to use the line, which I removed a poem that didn't deserve to claim it.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/705312/</link>
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			<title>Crawl</title>
			<description>A cloud of razorblades.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/705277/</link>
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			<title>The Ballad of the Shadow</title>
			<description>A relic, from a bygone era when I knew how to rhyme.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/705023/</link>
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			<title>A Wound in the Universe</title>
			<description>I once wrote 31 poems in a single January. This was the 31st.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/705004/</link>
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			<title>Ouroboros</title>
			<description>Everything makes less sense to me than I wish it did.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/704792/</link>
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			<title>Returning</title>
			<description>If all my poems were foods, this one would be a cupcake.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/704516/</link>
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			<title>Smiley Faces</title>
			<description>This is less clever than it thinks it is.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/704366/</link>
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			<title>Carnival</title>
			<description>It's someone else's turn to hold the sun up. I'm going on the Gravitron.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/703910/</link>
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			<title>There's Always Next Year.</title>
			<description>Written for a Valentine's Day contest in 2010. I lost.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/703723/</link>
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			<title>Half a Pair of Scissors</title>
			<description>Not to be confused with a knife.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/703695/</link>
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			<title>Calluses on a Soul</title>
			<description>she shuffled out of the supermarkethalf of her hair in curlers; the other halftaking what looked like a pretty desperate shotat marketing itself to a creature less repugnantor more stable than the humanoid junk drawerthat was now making her way through automatic doorsinto a concrete summ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/703465/</link>
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			<title>Zodiac</title>
			<description>I'm a Taurus. But you probably knew that, right?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/703410/</link>
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			<title>Pale Blue</title>
			<description>I find it sad when people think that science isn't beautiful.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/703207/</link>
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			<title>The Daydreamer's Atlas</title>
			<description>And a primer on avoiding responsibility</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/702958/</link>
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			<title>Be Easy, Rockstar</title>
			<description>I have tried for a long time to write this. It is my first legitimately new poem to share.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/702476/</link>
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			<title>The King on His Knees</title>
			<description>A study in symmetry, and lack thereof.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/702453/</link>
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			<title>The Far Side of Intentions</title>
			<description>Thanks for nothing.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/702308/</link>
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			<title>Tonight, We Dine in Hell</title>
			<description>THIS! IS! SPARTAAAAAAAA!</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/702153/</link>
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			<title>The Muse and the Gallows</title>
			<description>More rhyme than reason.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/701988/</link>
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			<title>Look Alive</title>
			<description>All ice and riptide.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/701693/</link>
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			<title>Between the Lines</title>
			<description>10% poem, 90% gimmick</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/701434/</link>
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			<title>Like Pages Torn from Gideon Bibles</title>
			<description>As if to be read.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/701412/</link>
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			<title>Hipster.</title>
			<description>I spent all my indie cred on a six-pack of PBR.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/701376/</link>
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			<title>I Guess Ya Had to Be There.</title>
			<description>This is perhaps my favorite thing that I have ever written.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/arcadia/700585/</link>
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