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		<title>Remembering the music</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1982, I was home sick (was that the year I had the chicken pox? or just strep throat? I don&#8217;t remember.)
My father brought me mint chocolate chip milkshakes, word puzzles, and, one magical day, Michael Jackson&#8217;s Thriller. Yes the album.
I still remember taking it from him in the driveway. Staring at it, puncturing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiku Friday: Relief</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;full is not heavy&#8221;
presentation done
head opening, body melts
i heave relief. deep.
mind hits heart hits core
comfort,done tires, too, but
full is not heavy
Buddhist class teaches
anger is your creation
yours to stop then, too
You can&#8217;t purify
old hurts that pull from merit
&#8217;til you stop the now.
baby steps can be
quite rocky, and yet they are
the most important
for more Washwords&#8217;  (and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luna de Miel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m honeymooning.
Not literally. Yes, we&#8217;re planning our fabulous England/Scotland honeymoon (Bath &#8211; York &#8211; Edinburgh &#8211; highlands &#8211; glasgow-london. heee!) but that&#8217;s not what I mean.
Life is sweet &#8211;even when I&#8217;m tired and work is&#8230; work and it&#8217;s too hot and/or too cold (jon stewart&#8217;s line: hits by grandma, featuring &#8220;Its suffocatingly hot&#8221; and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiku Friday: Riff on swine flu</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 14:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;m all knotted up
Disastrous case of twine flu
The cure: a good yarn
My pal&#8217;s back is hurt
Perhaps she has the spine flu
The cure: lay supine
Niece &#8220;bucket&#8221; age two
no shocker has caught &#8220;mine flu&#8221;
other tykes: adieu!
Complainin&#8217; and mopey
I have the whine flu fer shure
Cure? methinks WINE flues!
I could go all day but lemme hear yours! leave a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ritual</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 03:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get the Express every day, folded in gloved hand, the Ballston guy hands in syncopated rhythm, &#8220;hello, beautiful;thank you darlin, here you go hon,&#8221; fwip, fwip, fwip, the papers fly hand to hand to hand. &#8220;thank you sir,&#8221; I say. every day. in harmony with the clipping shoes, spreading umbrellas, buttoning coats.

["Stormy Personalities" by [...]]]></description>
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