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			<title>Dear...you,</title>
			<description>Dear...you, Your lips whispered hypnotic connotations in my earIt was sweet, it was charming, and it wasintoxicatingIn all realities, you were tooI smelled the cheap wine on your breath, on yourbeingWe walked, we talked, we laughed, we dancedSub textually , you wanted to ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/donshadi/992656/</link>
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			<title>&quot;Life's not fair&quot; said the bear. </title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;Life&amp;rsquo;s not fair&amp;rdquo; said the bear,He sat on his chair, he didn&amp;rsquo;t have a care.&amp;nbsp;&amp;ldquo;I don&amp;rsquo;t like my ears&amp;rdquo; said the deer, She never liked what she would hear, it only brought her totears. &amp;nbsp;&quot;I've been robbed&amp;rdquo; said the dog,Someone stole h..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/donshadi/986042/</link>
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			<title>Dear Abyss</title>
			<description>Dear Abyss,I feared youYou&amp;rsquo;ve visited me in my sleep, in the mere nightBack when I was juvenile and ignorant of yourbeautyAt night I heard you knock on my doorI never answeredI heard of your merciless You take everything awayAnd it never returns&amp;hellip;&amp;nb..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/donshadi/978158/</link>
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			<title>Stuffed Monster</title>
			<description>There was once a monster who scared everyone he knew They don't know that he is stuffed With the softest and warmest wool He could give them the softest, warmest, and bestest hug If only they knew</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/donshadi/977901/</link>
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			<title>Magic Mirror</title>
			<description>I took a look inside the magic mirrorIt&amp;nbsp;was the strangest mirror I have ever seenThe floor&amp;nbsp;was the ceiling and the ceiling&amp;nbsp;was the floorI&amp;nbsp;saw a boy inside the mirror, he too&amp;nbsp;was upside downI asked him, &amp;ldquo;How do you live in such a bizarre world?&amp;rdquo;He replie..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/donshadi/910312/</link>
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			<title>Scarlet Light</title>
			<description>The orbs could see right through youGhastly skeletal fingersConfining a beautiful scarlet light &amp;hellip;With the aroma of sweet raspberries in the summer&amp;rsquo;s dayAll that passion&amp;hellip;just trash itDown to business...&amp;nbsp;Up DownUp DownHard knocks at my back doorPlaying ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/donshadi/786585/</link>
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			<title>Black Cat</title>
			<description>Outcast, black catGazes upon the moonIts abhorrent eyes reflecting your doom Solitary isolation...Sunlight deceased, depression increasedYour only solace found in the moonlightSilver light scintillatingFeeding your&amp;nbsp;famished&amp;nbsp;soulFood that'll never let you growYour false idea of photosynth..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/donshadi/784855/</link>
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			<title>Cocoon</title>
			<description>Compress and suppressMy sweet innocence Making me to conform, into this conventional, tradition worldSubside all of the things that made me a beautiful butterflyFlying so gleeful, flying so gracefulPut me back in my cocoon Reverse me back into that weak caterpillar, you once knewDepriv..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/donshadi/772565/</link>
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			<title>Bumble Bee From Hell</title>
			<description>I'm lying on the floor in the daughting dark,&amp;nbsp;while the rest of the world is asleep My mind is more awake, more aware of how you never really caredYour fibbing words&amp;nbsp;buzzing around my head pointing and laughing at meHaunting and taunting me.&amp;nbsp;Your sting made the warm blood ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/donshadi/769711/</link>
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			<title>So Fake, So Real</title>
			<description>I love blue but I always where pinkI&amp;rsquo;m so smart but I don&amp;rsquo;t know how to thinkI can be happy go lucky and love all the duckiesBut give your bones a chill with my malevolent killsI have a heart like a man but a mind like a womanI can be Mary Poppins or become Sir&amp;nbsp;BowmanI..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/donshadi/769144/</link>
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			<title>Drops</title>
			<description>You are the motivation for this conversationThe manifest of this destinationI've been burnt But not by not your&amp;nbsp;famished flame, starving for demolitionBut by this game we all have to playFeeble attempts to stay saneLeaving this eternal scarThat will never stop weepingThat will..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/donshadi/768348/</link>
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			<title>Barfield</title>
			<description>An attraction beyond this earthIt's cosmicDeja vu at it's bestI met you beforeIn another lifeYou don't remember me?You act like you don't notice meI've seen you beforeI'm not crazy...Are you afraid?Did I break your heart?Steal all your money?Killed someone close to you?I ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/donshadi/766548/</link>
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			<title>Cold Boy</title>
			<description>There was a boyWho never understoodWhy the world around him was so cold...He wore his coat to keep him warmThe cold&amp;nbsp;swepted through the comforting warmth&amp;nbsp;of the coatMaking him cold insideHe became sick...*cough cough*His eyes&amp;nbsp;were wateryAnd his nose&amp;n..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/donshadi/766547/</link>
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			<title>Lucy and I</title>
			<description>Lucy devours my brainLucy makes me cry like the rainLucy inflicts&amp;nbsp;all of my&amp;nbsp;pain...Lucy makes me&amp;nbsp;tells all these liesLucy and I&amp;nbsp;make all the babies cryLucy and I will rot with the flies...Lucy will send my body to HellThe thought of it rings my bellWhy h..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/donshadi/766544/</link>
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			<title>Meg in Red</title>
			<description>Meg and Fred went to bedFred is deadMeg's in redAway Meg fled...&amp;nbsp;Meg met CraigThey went to bedNow Craig is deadMeg's in red.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/donshadi/766541/</link>
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			<title>I Think It Was...An Emotion</title>
			<description>Humans&amp;hellip;How I wish I can be like youYou contain the one thing I want most&amp;hellip;EmotionYou know how to give love and receive it backYou know what anger feels likeYou know how to mourn for someone you loveLike how the family of my latest victim is doing at the momentAs I see his sobbing wife..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/donshadi/766540/</link>
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			<title>A Deluision</title>
			<description>The love I have for you is pointless&amp;nbsp;You have no idea who I am or what my name is&amp;nbsp;I doubt you even know that I exist&amp;nbsp;Even though I know this&amp;nbsp;I still try to convince myself that you do know me&amp;nbsp;I try to convince myself that you have the same love for me that I have..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/donshadi/766538/</link>
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			<title>Dear Soulmate</title>
			<description>Dear Soulmate,&amp;nbsp;I want us to love each other, flaws and all&amp;nbsp;I don't want us to feel uncomfortable around each other completely naked&amp;nbsp;I want us to be able to use the restroom in front of each other&amp;nbsp;I want us to be able to act like complete kids when we're together...And..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/donshadi/766537/</link>
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			<title>I'm Just a Freak</title>
			<description>Why can't you look deeper?Is your heart that shallow?That you can't look inside meAnd see the person that I'm really am?Why not take a step closer?And realize I'm not that badAre you scared...That I'm the stranger you told your kids not talk to?That I'm the lunatic who wants to s..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/donshadi/766534/</link>
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			<title>Martin Luther King Died in Vain</title>
			<description>Martin Luther King died in vainHe died so that the whites and blacks can walk togetherIn brotherly loveAnd yet People have issues withBlacks having white friendsWhites having black friendsAnd interracial loveHe did not die to leave America how it wasSegregatedWe as a people are always saying racis..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/donshadi/766533/</link>
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			<title>Trapped</title>
			<description>Trapped in depression.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/donshadi/766530/</link>
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