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		<title>Report from the Field</title>
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By rights it was too hot in the city to do or hear any poetry last night, but I insisted on going&#8211; even to the degree of putting my girlfriend on the shelf in order to go alone.  Last night was a night to stand in front of a bar or gallery and smoke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Spirits Voice</title>
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I was introduced to the Spiritualist church years ago by a friend of mine who, like myself, had lost her mother.  I don&#8217;t remember what we talked about before, how she found it.  I remember that the evening was curious&#8211; i didn&#8217;t totally understand what was happening, but i was cool with it. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dirtyratattack.com/?p=825</link>
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		<title>Where Do You Want To Be If You Don&#8217;t Want To Be Here With Us?</title>
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i found the cafe in north beach easily enough.  I&#8217;d been here before, years ago.  Back then I lived in the city and came just to get out of the house and write.  Tonight though I was meeting my mentor, Steve, who&#8217;d called earlier in the morning inviting me to come see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dirtyratattack.com/?p=818</link>
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		<title>Diff&#8217;rent Lyrics Over The Same Beat</title>
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My new excuse for not attending m/any open mics lately has been having a girlfriend&#8211; especially considering I don&#8217;t push her very hard to attend any poetry readings.  Last night was a rare night when I had nothing to do, she and i were off duty  and I had spare energy to burn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dirtyratattack.com/?p=815</link>
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		<title>Sounds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[my typing, a mouth of dry ice/ the crunch of richards scroll pad across the isle/ the heavy slip of pages in a book/ a desk fan/ a chair on the opposite side of the room squeaks loudly as a body shifts/ the squeak like a boat easing over waves/ a gentle metallic bark/ a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The House of Light</title>
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The previous week, returning from a party, Myron and I passed this church&#8211; a christian methodist episcopal church&#8211;and I mentioned in passing we should come here some day.  The building was a quiet mystery to me; i&#8217;d passed it for years upon years as i grew up mere blocks from its door.  Come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dirty Thirty #24: Hermaphrodites &amp; Pnuemonia (Or why Mother&#8217;s Day Leaves Me So Profoundly Sad)</title>
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New Monia -or- Cognac For Water
Her voice tattered as a blues musician who took cognac for water.
Weeks before tonight, before the prayers, before the flowers &#038; dark car even,
I stood over her watching her choke on the plastic air tube the emergency room
docs funnelled into her throat.  I stood above her, just us in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dirtyratattack.com/?p=799</link>
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		<title>Dirty Thirty #23: On The Road Out Of Eden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel like a disgruntled child doing homework.  Am continuing to push through this, out of curiosity, sure.  Yet I admit hating on using rhyme.  I see why i avoided it for so long.  Wish I could interview Dr. Seuss.  Or better&#8211; Maybe MF Doom.  The narrative I want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dirtyratattack.com/?p=794</link>
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		<title>Dirty Thirty #22: The Signifying Monkey Assumes A New Skin</title>
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Form always frustrates me.  My mind wants to remain committed to the form more than the story I want to tell.  My distraction &#8211;form vs. story&#8211; dilutes the power of both.  But maybe the arguement in my head is over discipline.  In previous years i&#8217;ve allowed my poems to grow wild [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dirtyratattack.com/?p=788</link>
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		<title>Dirty Thirty #21: Black Babies In Hollywood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What is being black?  Its&#8217; making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted.  Taking something that&#8217;s seen as a struggle and making it work for you or you&#8217;ll die inside.&#8221;  John Meyer
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Black Babies In Hollywood
in hollywood
black babies are made
without the presence of black men
black men are afraid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dirtyratattack.com/?p=785</link>
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