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		<title>Reaction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melinda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel as though I&#8217;m being kept around just for the chaos factor. Chaos loves me. It&#8217;s easy for me to cause mayhem (Intentionally or not) and maybe that’s all I am to some people- a part of the recipe that equals fun slowly crossing the border to danger.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Sometimes I feel as though I&#8217;m being kept around just for the chaos factor. Chaos loves me. It&#8217;s easy for me to cause mayhem (Intentionally or not) and maybe that’s all I am to some people- a part of the recipe that equals fun slowly crossing the border to danger.</p>
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		<title>I can&#8217;t work with these people!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melinda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ridiculously close, mingling airs.
a
It is human, she grits,
To want and to want and
a

to aaaaaaa want.
a
 Can&#8217;t tell her that I don&#8217;t
understand her,
because then it is just too late
to talk.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Ridiculously close, mingling airs.</p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">a</span></p>
<p><em><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,&amp;">It is human, </span></span></em><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,&amp;">she grits,</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,&amp;"><em>To want and to want and</em></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,&amp;"><em><span style="color:#ffffff;">a</span><br />
</em></span></span></p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,&amp;"><em>to <span style="color:#ffffff;">aaaaaaa</span> want.</em></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,&amp;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">a</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,&amp;"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="color:#000000;"> </span><span style="color:#000000;">Can&#8217;t tell her that I don&#8217;t</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,&amp;"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="color:#000000;">understand her,</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,&amp;"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="color:#000000;">because then it is just too late</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="padding-left:60px;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Georgia,&amp;"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="color:#000000;">to talk.</span><br />
</span></span></span></p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melinda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Chris Lindores!
I don&#8217;t have any excuse for not writing as much as I need/like to.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>I love <a href="http://non-the-road.deviantart.com/">Chris Lindores</a>!</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t have any excuse for not writing as much as I need/like to.</p>
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		<title>FACE</title>
		<link>http://vocalize.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/face/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melinda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll text you.
You&#8217;ll text me?
I&#8217;ll text you.
a
I know as soon as the line cuts that there won&#8217;t be any texting, no email,
no instant messaging.
A connection with someone after a while. While as in months, maybe years, you may as well be dead because it&#8217;s not like we talk,
I kind of have new people anyway,
while.
a
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>I&#8217;ll text you.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll text me?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll text you.</p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">a</span></p>
<p>I know as soon as the line cuts that there won&#8217;t be any texting, no email,</p>
<p>no instant messaging.</p>
<p>A connection with someone after a while. While as in months, maybe years, you may as well be dead because it&#8217;s not like we talk,</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">I kind of have new people anyway,</p>
<p style="padding-left:60px;">while.</p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">a</span></p>
<p>And, besides, Zimmerman knew when he said that the times they are a changin&#8217;,</p>
<p>because they have, and you have, and both of us have,</p>
<p>and now you&#8217;re suddenly, abruptly,</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">strange.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melinda</dc:creator>
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20 Cigarettes by Mike Gerbino. So good!
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<p><em>20 Cigarettes </em>by Mike Gerbino. So good!</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melinda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When someone I care about is crying I can never say anything, so I jut hold their hand or kiss them. I always wondered why physical contact between people was such a comforting thing: as if when we&#8217;re born we know that being held could fix everything, for a moment.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>When someone I care about is crying I can never say anything, so I jut hold their hand or kiss them. I always wondered why physical contact between people was such a comforting thing: as if when we&#8217;re born we know that being held could fix everything, for a moment.</p>
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		<title>Black/white</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melinda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I snap between two extremes:
Happy
and
incapable of rational thought
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>I snap between two extremes:</p>
<p>Happy</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">and</p>
<p style="padding-left:60px;">incapable of rational thought</p>
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		<title>Trees</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melinda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my teachers mentioned that it would be wonderful if we were like native plants so that we could regenerate after we burned, and we&#8217;d be better than before. I imagined sprouting strong scar free hands after accidents that I would gesture wildly with, even more than I do.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>One of my teachers mentioned that it would be wonderful if we were like native plants so that we could regenerate after we burned, and we&#8217;d be better than before. I imagined sprouting strong scar free hands after accidents that I would gesture wildly with, even more than I do.</p>
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		<title>Sometimes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melinda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In another state, in the morning,
freezing in the car.
a
The sun crept over the frozen grass horizon line
as a blues song swelled in my ears and
everything
was calm
and golden;
a
for a moment.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>In another state, in the morning,</p>
<p>freezing in the car.</p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">a</span></p>
<p>The sun crept over the frozen grass horizon line</p>
<p>as a blues song swelled in my ears and</p>
<p>everything</p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;">was calm</p>
<p style="padding-left:60px;">and golden;</p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">a</span></p>
<p>for a moment.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melinda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once someone was bending  my wrist back so that it like it would break. I panicked and said &#8220;You&#8217;re hurting me, stop!&#8221; etc. Eventually he stopped and a few hours later I thought about it and realized I literally felt ashamed for being in pain, when someone was hurting me.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Once someone was bending  my wrist back so that it like it would break. I panicked and said &#8220;You&#8217;re hurting me, stop!&#8221; etc. Eventually he stopped and a few hours later I thought about it and realized I literally felt ashamed for being in pain, when someone was hurting me.</p>
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