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	<title>Listen &#38; Be Heard Weekly Archives &#187; Poem of the Day</title>
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	<description>Archived Articles from L&#38;BH Weekly through April 26, 2008</description>
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		<title>The Drunken Eye</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/25/the-drunken-eye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>don hagelberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Memory of Li Po, My Drunken Bodhisattva   Buddhist bamboo stands strong Yet sways flexible right or wrong. Resisting breaks the stalk, Surrendering, giving-in creates paths. Scientific, philosophic, theologic Thoughts do not reveal my walk. How I am to exist.  What I am to do. How I am to live and for what I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Craft of Wooden Word Working</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/24/the-craft-of-wooden-word-working/</link>
		<comments>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/24/the-craft-of-wooden-word-working/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>don hagelberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Memory of Hank Lampi, Carpenter   The Jack plane smoothes wood Cut rough by the teeth of the saw, While shavings, like words, stare out From tight curls&#8212;up from the floor.  ]]></description>
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		<title>BOOK PASSAGE</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/23/book-passage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charles frederickson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#62;&#60;  Homespun globe circumnavigating lonesome planet             Finding refuge in secluded den                         Perusing travelogues bound multicolored atlases                                     Whale of Telltale library classics &#62;&#60;     &#62;&#60;    Earthborn into secure landlocked circumstance             Lubbers faraway from oceans favoring                          Freshwater lakes over saltern fishpond                                     Yellow-belly sunfish to killer sharks &#62;&#60;     &#62;&#60;     &#62;&#60; Words cannot express wondrous vastitude             Rearranged givens craving subterranean exploration                         Needful privacy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SPIN CYCLE</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/22/spin-cycle/</link>
		<comments>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/22/spin-cycle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charles frederickson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poem of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dr. charles frederickson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saknarin chinayote]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Earth’s spit-polished veneer chipped away             Without skin we cannot live                         Sea levels rise coastlines retreat                                     Overflowing glacial teardrops flooding basins                                                 &#62;&#60;  &#62;&#60;  &#62;&#60;  &#62;&#60;  &#62;&#60;                                     Spitfire core molten anima meltdown                         Crust scraped like burnt toast             Streaming butter sugary cinnamon sprinkles Teapot spout letting off steam &#60;&#62;  &#60;&#62;  &#60;&#62;  &#60;&#62;  &#60;&#62; Wanton destruction of lonesome planet             Diminishing water supplies agricultural clashes                         Recycled excuses uprooted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPFALL</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/21/upfall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charles frederickson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poem of the Day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlined silver satin cloud sprinkle             Stained dirty linen wrung out                         Hand-me-down drizzle grown out of                                     Drip-dry fabric wrinkles steam ironed                                                 &#62; &#62; &#62; &#62; &#62;                                     Varicose veined old leafs overturned                         Serrate edges rusty switchblade hitters             Bent twisted tongues stirring honey Yawning crotchety slingshot stoning outcasts &#60; &#60; &#60; &#60; &#60; Hemmed in by evergreen canopy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invest in Chalkboards</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/18/invest-in-chalkboards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter bray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All we need to know is on a chalkboard somewhere. All we need to do is to find the right one, rearrange the equations, extrapolate the conversations, and update the vocabulary. Not settle for mediocrity as a way of life. Throw the mediocre bums out of office. Find a cure for cancer, end world hunger, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STANLEY ANN DUNHAM (1942 – 1995)</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/17/stanley-ann-dunham-1942-%e2%80%93-1995/</link>
		<comments>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/17/stanley-ann-dunham-1942-%e2%80%93-1995/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charles frederickson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sprung from apparent inspirational stimulus      Obamama described as original feminist           Taproot source wondrous probing curiosity                Unconventional revelatory truthitudes discovery learnt   Heir-conditioned daring free spirited breakaway      Embracing not shunning cultural diversity           Chillaxing all that jazz cool                Struggle to make a difference   Generously empowering others celebrating life      Championed rural development core issues           Created sustainable microfinance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Billy Ralph &amp; The Pizza Factory III</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/16/from-billy-ralph-the-pizza-factory-iii/</link>
		<comments>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/16/from-billy-ralph-the-pizza-factory-iii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bill vartnaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poem of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volume 5 Issue 16]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bill vartnaw]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[for Barry way out in space out so far that if a man went that far &#38; came back to talk about it he’d be younger than his grandchildren …that far out in space a red giant implodes slow grey clouds rumble in gale-warning wind over the lens of Palomar but when the game isn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billy Ralph &amp; The Pizza Factory Prologue</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/15/billy-ralph-the-pizza-factory-prologue/</link>
		<comments>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/15/billy-ralph-the-pizza-factory-prologue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bill vartnaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poem of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volume 5 Issue 16]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[dust devils dance on the floor of decayed chicken houses kicking up heels of white feathers, the smell of the daily grind that had encyclopedias calling this place: The Egg Basket of the World Captain Bill &#38; Billy Ralph stand, crow bars in hand, ignoring the growth of golden rolling hills, eucalyptic sprouts… 40 feet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polythene Bag</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/14/polythene-bag/</link>
		<comments>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/14/polythene-bag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christopher barnes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poem of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volume 5 Issue 16]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[                            Unscrunched – At-a-pinch an illusory surface. Rucks are crushed points, downstream. An air-oozing atlas Of fingerprints, smears. A bubble ground to its pinpoint In some see-through, unrevealed way.]]></description>
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		<title>Landslides</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/11/landslides-2/</link>
		<comments>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/11/landslides-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevin gallagher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poem of the Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[this is a portion of part 1 of a 4 part poem focus, i am a house of rubble, pull out from beneath the ruined pangs of sobriety, set on collapsing your aura clear into an ocean of visual and sonic phenomena. prisms and mirrors abound, buried under the color of headlights in rainwater at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ablution</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/09/ablution/</link>
		<comments>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/09/ablution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>venise evangelista</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poem of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volume 5 Issue 15]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[venise evangelista]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[growing up inadequacies motions slow unbalanced questioning clouds moving far grasping grays is it better to know or flow with blind hope to follow each day&#8217;s residue until maybe&#8217;s tomorrow but a kite can fly only with its steady anchor as the leashed can never be lost free as one can be- cautious hesitation, contemplation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reason</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/08/reason/</link>
		<comments>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/08/reason/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amanda paige</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poem of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volume 5 Issue 15]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do I do when I don&#8217;t have a clue? sit here, and I wanna be angry, but it&#8217;s so hard tonight. There are so many reasons to cry, tonight, not one can I find. not a reason. Wonder Why&#8230; I don&#8217;t hear an angry word all I see is beautiful everything is dissolved in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Landslides</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/07/landslides/</link>
		<comments>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/07/landslides/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kevin gallagher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poem of the Day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[this is a portion of part 1 of a 4 part poem   lastly but not a blue floral moon, incandescent and silently struck the pavement before digressing its directive was somber, says go and be tides sweeping your fatal tectonic plates, forks, knives and spoons, written on a napkin &#8220;we will not bother you.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blood Stained Twenties</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/04/blood-stained-twenties/</link>
		<comments>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/04/blood-stained-twenties/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>phillip ghee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poem of the Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I got crack. I got smack. I gotta pocket full of twenties. I got dis corner and, my boyz, they got my back. So let&#8217;s be realistic, don&#8217;t  need me no mystic . Got my glock for ballastics. I don&#8217;t plan on becoming nobody F-in statistic. So don&#8217;t try to stop it. Yo! My pockets phat and, your 9 to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>300</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/03/300/</link>
		<comments>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/03/300/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charles frederickson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poem of the Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  Gutter politricks lovers’ lane off-limits    Aiming to go all the       Way with nothing but strikes          Maplewood floorboard slivers resurfaced urethane   Iraqi road handicaps compensating scratch    Imperfect game plan bowled over-and-out       No OK/KO exit strategy rated-X          Tenpins down for the count   Kingpin George Bush-league Captain Warvel    Crooked hook missing 1-3 pocket       Leaving snake eyes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Guardian</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/02/your-guardian/</link>
		<comments>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/02/your-guardian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amanda paige</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poem of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daily poem]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will come to you in the dark of night and I will hold you and never let you feel alone&#8230; I will be there to help you find a way. Just Believe in Me, Believe , Just Believe. I can hear the cry within you, let your tears subside, I will be by your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ode to Blue Angels</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/01/ode-to-blue-angels/</link>
		<comments>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/04/01/ode-to-blue-angels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martha mims</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poem of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daily poetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[if you asked me &#8220;describe blue angels&#8221; i would say blue angels watch over us cry for sins we will soon commit feel pain when children suffer whisper words inspiring us to be better love all people would never imagine in my wildest dreams that blue angels could be air planes screaming obscenities at blue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quentin Crisp Daydreams</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/03/18/quentin-crisp-daydreams/</link>
		<comments>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/03/18/quentin-crisp-daydreams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christopher barnes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Issue 12]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Volume 5]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Brocade in ivory and foam-flecked cream, Your robe-de-chambre has arrived. Many-sidedly turned out (by hand). The smocking at T.G. Jakobowicz?Äôs Is The Biz for the hob-nobility. Assume the cutter?Äôs scruples with lace For the floppy bodice, pique at the ruffle, Two square yards of netting Under cute queenly ormshells. Trip-up velvet skirting, Angelhooded, slight-skein sleeves. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE GATES</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/03/17/the-gates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaela sefler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Issue 12]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poem of the Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The gates are open, and she comes through; embellished by the moonlight. His attempts, bring back hopes of a forgotten promise, he shines. Remembering her attempts he is strengthened in silence, he holds for she reigns in his province. And this night is different, and he remembers the slight nuances that take shape in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebetis (1)</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/03/14/rebetis-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>don hagelberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published in Exit #13 For Thanasis Maskaleris (2) Poet, teach my poems how to dance! (3) Now they can only limp along, alla zoppa (4), As if in a trance to unheard music Played on un-amplified instruments, By young voices as wide eyed as Owls, As if Minerva could reappear as cloned birds Perched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus Cried-</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/03/13/jesus-cried/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hunter austin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The streets are empty cold and I am alone this morning My idle rant appears as steam Meaningless cloudwisp hung in a crazy sky jabber Ah! Two people pass Holding hands walking wearing warm knits They do not see, Father I am wet with the dew of Christmas dawn and There is no manger Two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Queen</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/03/12/queen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christopher barnes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An amputated sunrise, classic curve Veined behind disgorging sky, We arrive, platform three. Foreshadowed blue, clear-cut, The Scot steams, smokes Chasing soot rummaging clouds Overhanging to Portsmouth. Throttled incipient blades, Speeds dissolve to sippets; Blood pumping along cracks, White transparent skin. At the Palace, orbs, sceptres Luminous pitch, underthings hitched up, Rich stale fetor of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE DOVE</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/03/11/the-dove/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaela sefler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[from the forthcoming volume of poetry &#8220;Healing Tree,&#8221; Inner Circle Publishing A dove, a symbol of peace wisdom of the awaiting; a messenger of purity and new beginnings. The deer swift and graceful; aspirations of the life of the soul. The crow, symbol of foretold destinies darkness before creation, known realities, awaiting changes. The phoenix [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listening Post</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/03/10/listening-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hunter austin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a quiet place Down a ways cow ?ÄúMyaah?Äù &#8230;the odd bird Tug-boat engine churning water wake A bee buzz on the wind against my ear Leaves Far off trains strike big-handed chords The grand pipe organ, the rusty rails And the gunpowder clouds sing ?ÄúTrouble don?Äôtcha come here, no.?Äù Locomotive close in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>branded equUS</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/03/07/branded-equus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charles frederickson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spaghetti western horse opry neigh-sayers &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Shoot-&#8217;em-up shut-&#8217;em-up Make My Day &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Dark horse upsets pale horse &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Broncobuster bucking stacked deck odds &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Double-dealing sharks pair of Aces &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Livin&#8217; on Jacks and Queens &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Maverick heartthrob winning Royal Flush Straight wrangler rustling V-for-Vaquero rodeo-o-o Chuck wagon chocolate chip cookies &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Doves scavenging leftover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pollyanna</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/03/06/pollyanna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christopher barnes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ambition fashions itself narrowly deflating girls. It?Äôs open and shut ?Äì even grisly ducklings spree drugstore complexions, tags, hospitalizing arts. See they?Äôre just dandy, touchingly blessed, grabby with all the latest-scream fads. * She?Äôd knocked up and out charged on teenage begetting rates. A surplus shell suit this month, window shops pushchairs in lieu in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Starvation</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/03/05/the-politics-of-starvation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>don hagelberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What some people do In order to: Eat. On Manet&#8217;s painting, &#8220;Luncheon on the Grass&#8221; [La Dejeuner sur l'Herbe] Her eyes force me to look away From her nakedness. She is not nude. The heat of shame reddens my face. Her eyes stare at me, so I look instead At the still-life which graces me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plane Factory</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/03/04/plane-factory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christopher barnes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boeing?Äôs ripped up the tides and times. Under push-buttons hands knit a Joseph?Äôs coat of many wires. Wing ribs sit up for cramping into planes. Atlantis is overindulged with play-the-game cockpits. Beholden are we for their sweat and nose-dive the world easily.]]></description>
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		<title>Fragment 4</title>
		<link>http://listenandbeheard.net/archives/2008/03/03/fragment-4-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bill vartnaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We begin the way East, west. Into the ocean with many names. Animals stir the dark inside us, like questions, crawling &#038; hungry. So many answers. We cut them down, make room &#038; call it shelter, a space &#038; time of our own. A new frontier to probe. This is freedom. &#038; it?Äôs scary. We [...]]]></description>
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