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	<title>Rawing Lines in the Sand</title>
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	<description>A few hundred poems written in 2009.</description>
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		<title>wanting</title>
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		<description> it is not enough

i think

to love



to love and love

to love and love and love



it is not enough

to touch, to dream, to hope

to pray

to say my name and

love



love, it is not enough

to love



i think



but oh, to kiss

for a moment

that is everything. </description>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Anstey</dc:creator>
		<category>Polly Wogs &amp;amp; Churlish Goofiness</category>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:18:07 GMT</pubDate>
		<comments>/section-704-polly-wogs-churlish-goofiness#comments</comments>
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		<title>Loneliness</title>
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		<description> 
This is the story of the abdomen

the long low cramp that bursts 

like my imagination from my tongue.



This is the borrowed pen, jotting tears

like like poetry tapped from my veins

bleeding blue onto thin pale skin.



All of this, is the body of work

that defines an endless yawping yawn

that creates the chasm where our love should be.



This is is us.

Alone. 
02/07/2009 </description>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Anstey</dc:creator>
		<category>Polly Wogs &amp;amp; Churlish Goofiness</category>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:53:38 GMT</pubDate>
		<comments>/section-704-polly-wogs-churlish-goofiness#comments</comments>
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		<title>Psalm for a City Lost</title>
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		<description> In Lowell, God is unknown.

    his name is forgotten in Centerville. 

his tabernacle is empty in Jeanne D'arc

    and only he knows were he dwells.



If there is passion like flaming arrows 

    and hope like a shield on fifth avenue 

then the memory of him is a sword, and we are war.



Glorious are you, and excellent,

    more than the valiant Merrimac water 

plundered by the Pawtucket falls

    resting tears down his cheeks

    

If there is salt, like crushing words

    and death like a filthy poem

then this is the hymn of ocean, and we are peace.

 

The god of Mayor Bud is nothing but rebuke

    and a mare whinnies as she pulls back 

in fear of the omnnipotent hand.

    Who are you that you can stand beside me? 



If there is heaven, like cold judgment

    and earth like the silence before

then this is affliction, and we are disease.



Surely the wrath of man praises you.

    The survivors of our prayers cry out:

Yahweh, Yahweh, we are alone.

    We are alone.



Our neighbors bring presents, but no fear of god

    this is the price of my song:

a careful descent to a careless hell.

   ... more  </description>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Anstey</dc:creator>
		<category>Translations from English</category>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 16:02:10 GMT</pubDate>
		<comments>/section-663-translations-from-english#comments</comments>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Denominations    </title>
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		<description>                                                
Christ, everything is divided arb
istrarily. Bodies of water, Cont
inents - faith. No wonder there is
war.

At the tippiest tip of Africa's top
piest top, I swam and dreamed toge
ther with sharks and seals. Halle
luia the water is warm.

Christ, everything is crashingto
getherar bitrarilyContinentseas
faith. The sharks digest the seals
in the warm water while

At the bottom, where the clams
walk and watch my feet with both 
eyes, War is peaceful. Everything 
drifts.  ... more  </description>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Anstey</dc:creator>
		<category>Almighty God or Something</category>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:22:48 GMT</pubDate>
		<comments>/section-708-almighty-god-or-something#comments</comments>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>escaping love</title>
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		<description> i noticed

that your heart

was open

just a smidge



and the light

inside you

was shining out from underneath

so brightly, i thought

it is forever in there



so i ran away

afraid. </description>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Anstey</dc:creator>
		<category>Polly Wogs &amp;amp; Churlish Goofiness</category>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:26:46 GMT</pubDate>
		<comments>/section-704-polly-wogs-churlish-goofiness#comments</comments>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>without you</title>
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		<description> when i grow up

i wish to be

the memory

of a cloud



too forgotten by the sun

to rain 

too lost by the moonlight

to be found



when i grow up

i wish to die

like the little crust

in your eye



comfortable, for a while

then brushed away

you, for a while

then crushed and gone



when i grow up </description>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Anstey</dc:creator>
		<category>Polly Wogs &amp;amp; Churlish Goofiness</category>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:08:29 GMT</pubDate>
		<comments>/section-704-polly-wogs-churlish-goofiness#comments</comments>
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		<title>ashamed of myself

</title>
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		<description> and yes, i'm embarrassed
 because yes, i feel you
 in me, raging like
 a tornado or a frog or
 maybe hot wet masturbation
 
 and yes, i'm embarrassed 
 because i never talk about
 any of that with anyone
 not even the frog because
 who could understand
 i want to be a frog
 
 that's so fucking nuts
 and i'm such a retard
 yes it's crazy but your
 legs are around something
 in me and your mind is
 rubbing me just right
 and i'm 
 
 embarrased because every
 thing is spin
 ning ar
 ound
 me and i'm not a
 frog, just fucking
 nuts. And so damned
 embarrassed. 
 I'm not a frog.
 just green, or
 something
 
I'm probably not even
 that. swimming around
 wallowing
like a fool
 i remember before legs
 being a tadpole
 
 or maybe i was kansas
 not a tadpole
 maybe I was wheat
 or corn
 right there
 under the tornado.
 wishing i was a frog.  ... more  </description>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Anstey</dc:creator>
		<category>Polly Wogs &amp;amp; Churlish Goofiness</category>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:06:55 GMT</pubDate>
		<comments>/section-704-polly-wogs-churlish-goofiness#comments</comments>
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		<title>purge
</title>
		<link>https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-11113-purge</link>
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		<description> Renata thought that maybe I should try

a cup of pear and beet juice

or maybe a double shot of wheat grass

to clean me out, completely. 
 Maybe I should try, something

like a cup of cranberry

or maybe that double shot of wheat grass

but i hate that feeling, completely. 
 Renata is usaully right, so maybe I should.

Try a cup, or a pair and beat it.

A triple shot of wheat grass

will really clean me out, completely. </description>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Anstey</dc:creator>
		<category>Polly Wogs &amp;amp; Churlish Goofiness</category>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:42:57 GMT</pubDate>
		<comments>/section-704-polly-wogs-churlish-goofiness#comments</comments>
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		<title>Long Night Blues</title>
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		<description> i was sippin' gin when Mel walked in

and strummed along a beer

i had two more (both tall) before

he asked if i could hear

the heartache at the Worthen

loneliness at Brew'd

i shook my head, and simply said

i don't hear nuthin' dude



Market street's all quiet, middle street's all dark

Kerouac still sleeping on the bench right in his park

and sure I'm mostly broken

and sure I'm mostly dead

but I'm here in lowell

and halfway whole

two cold beers and a too warm bed



ahhh, just for fun i bought him one

but Mel couldn't let it go

i shook my head, then i said

&quot;man, you know i just dont' know

I'm a god damned poet, I don't know a thing&quot;

i paid my tab, i got a cab

i still hear him sing



Market street's all quiet, middle street's all dark

Kerouac still sleeping on the bench right in his park

and sure I'm mostly broken

and sure I'm mostly dead

but I'm here in lowell

and halfway whole

two cold beers and a too warm bed



i went back today, hopin' he would play

and i could have a brew

but Mel weren't there, life ain't fair

what's a boy to do?

that's when I heard heartache in the worthen

Jen had come to sing

about grandpa and her childhood

how it meant everything



Market street's all quiet, middle street's all dark

Kerouac still sleeping on the bench right in his park

and sure I'm mostly broken

and sure I'm mostly dead

but I'm here in lowell

and halfway whole

two cold beers and a too warm bed



Hey there Jenny, sing it just for me

Mel ain't here and i need it dear

a song to lift me up

I slapped away a barfly's day

smashed a spidered glass

i tried to laugh a little, but I'd had enough



sure I'm mostly broken

sure I'm mostly dead

I'm here in lowell

halfway whole

two cold beer and a busted head



03/20/2009  ... more  </description>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Anstey</dc:creator>
		<category>Dirges and other Tuneless Tunes</category>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:34:10 GMT</pubDate>
		<comments>/section-705-dirges-and-other-tuneless-tunes#comments</comments>
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		<title>best friends</title>
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		<description> It is not enough that we were we 

and young and rough but tender 

Or that we climbed stones and fell 

over fell down fell long wee hills.



Enough is the filth of pine tar on

our we hands on our wee shirts on 

and on with youth and thin roads



Enough to grace with graceful footsteps

grace-full prayers and bruises on our

graceless bruises on our graceless knees



Oh, the cold spring, on Coldspring road 

we were we and young and tough enough

tender still and rare, ready to cook

we fell and fell down and fell along wee hills



It is not enough that we were we,

we are old and broke and broken too

and roughly lost, but tender. The we 

that climbed stones wiped young hands



on our wee shirts on and on with years

the thick roads grow and we grow too wee 

to love grace and graceful, gracefully. 



bruises on our bruises on our wee knees

become the rarest rare of memories. Oh, 

Coldspring Road, you are not enough 

though I am wee. Youth and grace and loss

on and on, i fall, i fall down and fall along

calamity.  ... more  </description>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Anstey</dc:creator>
		<category>Dirges and other Tuneless Tunes</category>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:33:32 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>explaining how we are all the fillet-o-fish</title>
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		<description> the cold grey angst of morning hangs 

about him, the boat and her quiet

music of rope and the massage of water

against her waterline. He casts

toward the thin reeds by the fog-blurred shore

pauses, and deliberately starts 

to reel. 



i wait, and consider the bait.



the veil of chill morning rests

above me, the boat and her thundering

music of foot and the message of water

against her waterline. He reels

toward the thing reeds of my fog-blurred logic

pauses, and deliberately stars

to cast



i wait, and consider the bait.



the lonely grey of morning hangs

about him, the boat and her sobbing

music of tether and the mess of water

against hi cheeks. I bite

hard the thin line under the fog-blurrred dream

he sets, and deliberately starts 

to reel.



i wait, and consider my fate.  ... more  </description>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Anstey</dc:creator>
		<category>Semi-Sweet &amp;amp; Chaulky</category>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:31:51 GMT</pubDate>
		<comments>/section-665-semi-sweet-chaulky#comments</comments>
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		<title>Song for Sam &amp; Tom</title>
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		<description>Dedication



For you, Oh my Soul, My Heart,

For you, Kind keepers of faith and truth,

For you, My Beloved, My Lover,

For you, For you, and For you.

Accept these lines, these words, I pray

Offer no praise, but please, please stay!



As long as you hear these verse

there is hope: Some girl should weep,

some lovesick boy, shall sing,

these songs will guide our hearts to leap!

For you, I offer this very page

in hope that joy might spring from our age





Prologue

Above the shores of northern lakes

amidst green towers, and late spring snow

the golden chains of sunlight forsake

the freedom of the thither we might go.

A lettered cat slides slight in brush

like shadowed thoughts that lurk

along a slow walk round and push

for prey; a painful dirty silent work

To right she stalks, and sees the shade;

To left she creeps, and knows the tale.



What Miracle! An meaty Angel's Wings

High o'er red pine, a feast, a foe

Too Large, Too Live, Too strong to sing

the ritual ignorance of a beast unknown.

A lettered man's callous empty eyes,

build a hut without a door or window,

For him the prey is not too big or wise

thus he plans, and plots and preens although

In the wooded valley where, above, an eagle waits,

below, a turkey strolls, and either may be dire fate



Wild tall Scholar, Holy Hunter or

a gentile Mannered Mystic swat of dawn

from gray blue mottled want of sky before

the hunt for our symbols can go on.

Oh Bitter Miracle! The endless squawk,

the wishbones uncracked and ready

as they feed by rough ice worn rock,

the feast of Stephan, as he

feints right, and yelps, and cries out, &quot;See!&quot;

feints left, alas, for a moment's assymetry.



All winds breathe of hope,fair change

Once friends, and the new friends a twitter

with symbols high and low both seeming strange

seeds like words from oak fall and flitter

to a groundless ground I can't recall

to a soundless song, of one and all.  ... more  </description>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Anstey</dc:creator>
		<category>Bam. Pooritics &amp;amp; suck</category>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:20:52 GMT</pubDate>
		<comments>/section-706-bam.-pooritics-suck#comments</comments>
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		<title>Equus</title>
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		<description> Though, part of me knows the Godhead

the long perfect sinew under the smooth hair

pulling the ground beneath him like a mad

pulsating dream of sweat and despair. Lurching

towards epiphany after the bit is removed

after freedom.



A part of me knows the Godhead though,

and longs for the perfect sinew and muscle

pulsating beneath me, like a mad dream

of sweat and me pulled to the ground

of smooth hair and the epiphany of freedom

after the bit is installed. Lurching.



Part of the Godhead is me though

the long perfect sinew of my smooth soul

pulling heaven beneath me like a mad

dream of lurching despair and sweat.

We are pulsating a bit in the epiphany

of the freedom of our hair and body removed.  ... more  </description>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Anstey</dc:creator>
		<category>Dirges and other Tuneless Tunes</category>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:58:04 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>motions, emotions, and watching the wasting of time</title>
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		<description> 
The small trains ride into small cities

The small people wait on the small platforms

goodbye, they say

goodbye, they reply

All aboard.



When the large trains come from the large cities

The large people wait on the large platforms

hello, they say

hello, they reply

All aboard.



When the trains large and small arrive

When the people large and small arrive

I watch them walk by

I watch them be strangers

In a strange city.



Later, late at night, when it is very cold 

When the large trains turn on their lights

goodnight, i think

goodnight

the strangers sleep



The small trains ride into large strange cities

The large strange people wait on the small platforms

The large trains ride into small strange cities

The small strange people wait on the large platforms



they say, hello

they say, goodbye

I watch them all

all aboard. I don't reply.  ... more  </description>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Anstey</dc:creator>
		<category>Dirges and other Tuneless Tunes</category>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:55:36 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Sound Track for a Romantic Sap</title>
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		<description> 
life is short and so are we, 

the night is long but can't you see, 

everything will be okay 

if you can just turn to me and say... 



Love....Love and silly things 

and love... and Love and all the joy it brings 

and Love.... that's all i want to say to you....



Life is long and so so hard

the day's are short for this lonely bard

but everything will be okay

if we can look at we and say...



Love....Love and silly things 

and love... and Love and all the joy it brings 

and Love.... that's all i want to say to you....



Life is weird and so that's that

the moon so skinny, the sun's so fat

but everything's okay

look at me my darling when I say...



Love....Love and silly things 

and love... and Love and all the joy it brings 

and Love.... that's all i want to say to you....



i want to say I love you

baby do you love me too 



Love....Love and silly things 

and love... and Love and all the joy it brings 

and Love.... that's all i want to say to you....

i love you baby, and this love is true  ... more  </description>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Anstey</dc:creator>
		<category>Dirges and other Tuneless Tunes</category>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:58:16 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>The silly poem for Leo about rape, abuse and death.</title>
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		<description> 
Leo told me to write a silly little poem

about rape, abuse, and (of course) death

something light and airy, that recounts

the cracking of soul and bone

celebrates the lost and the meek, 

tastefully. 



I smiled, because Leo is exactly the kind

of kind man that one would never expect

to write an angry poem about the darkness.



Sure, I told him. Then my brain exploded

neatly in the sink. The rattling of shards

of skull was delicate, blood swirling

like a carousel around the aluminum drain,

and Leo sighed. The celebration over

tastefully.



I smiled, because I am almost that kind

of kind corpse that anyone would ever expect

to rot happily like a poem about the darkness.



Leo told me how he is duality encumbered 

with flesh. raped by the demons of a hard life

abused and disabused by every fetid notion

until a joyful death can save him from all

of this like a latex dildo saves a virgin 

tastefully.



I smiled, because I love the kind of marmalade appeal

of the kind of macabre joke so unexpected

tender sweet and bitterly delivered.



Sure, he told me, then he let my body collapse

neatly on the floor. The potoatoey thud of flesh

was benediction. Leo's demons flew away away

into the murk of my dead pan release. Around us

the mindless funk of nearly-dead gathered

tastefully.



I smiled, because I love the kind of story 

of the kind of girl who picks exactly the home

for the apparently slowly dying parent.



Leo told me my poem wasn't silly enough 

or about rape enough or about abuse enough

or death. But he liked the way my soul cracked

like knuckles and my bones where hidden in

the eyeless potatoes of my flesh. And i wrote in the dildo

tastefully.



I smiled, because rigor mortis is the kind

of kindness so intrinsic to my brand of corpse

apparently tender and sweet, but really an angry poem.  ... more  </description>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Anstey</dc:creator>
		<category>Dirges and other Tuneless Tunes</category>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:37:38 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>un-speaking passion in a world of sheets</title>
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		<description> Whisper again, over and over, that you love me. 

Though I can't hear, as you repeat, the rhythm

becomes my heartbeat. 



I know you, here, in the darkness where fingers

touch, touch, run, fly, and sip soft flesh. I whisper,

again, over and over, that i love you.



Speak once, and hold the best of your kiss

for later, when the urgency is raging purple

and ready to explode - hot and honest, because

no lies can live here.



I know you, here, in the darkness where flesh

burns, burns, shivers, cries and aches against fingers. I scream,

once, into you. God, I love you.



Now, it is the truth,

silence alone

speaks our names.  ... more  </description>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Anstey</dc:creator>
		<category>Semi-Sweet &amp;amp; Chaulky</category>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:34:49 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Advice to a Skinny Dipper</title>
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		<description> We all have our demons, and we all have our hopes, 

we all hang alone, our necks wrapped in ropes.

We all find the ways 

deep into graves and nothing behaves 

clean so there's soap. 



We all know the jots and we all see the tittles 

and we all dream something wrong just a bit'll



We all have our demons, and all have our death

we all stand together as we suck our last breath

We all lose our ways

high into heaven and nothing behaves

dear, please not yet



We all know the notes and wall see the words

and we all sleep alone just so we are heard



We all have our demons, and we all have our hands

We all pray together, but we don't understand

We all find the ways

besides our cold graves and nothing behaves

clean like we planned.



We all know the colors and we all hear the songs

and we all dream of nothing, because we're all wrong.  ... more  </description>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Anstey</dc:creator>
		<category>Dirges and other Tuneless Tunes</category>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:25:11 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>sins of spring</title>
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		<description> 
and winter was our mother

dying as we came

to every realization

that nothing is the same



and snowflakes were our daddy

flying away

from every sunrise breaking

on every broken day



and icy ponds were our brothers

desperate to breathe

just one gulp of air

that's all that they need



and winter was our mother

gone but not forgot

everything is melting

is it not?



and daddy's gone again

like blizzard winds

over brittle bones

and secret sins



and the boys are silent

like the aftermath of snow

every night 'til eternity

that's all they know



and winter was our mother

dying as we came

upon the green grass

and knew she was insane



yeah, winter was our mother

dying as we came



as we came  ... more  </description>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Anstey</dc:creator>
		<category>Naturally</category>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:22:38 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>kitsch</title>
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		<description> and so i was thinking about a woman

in a skimpy outfit riding on a polar bear

which sounds sort of odd, and freakish

and possibly psychotic. maybe sexual

in exactly the wrong way to share

with strangers or family, and that's when

i thought of you. not in skimpy clothes

for Christ's sake, or riding a damned

sweaty polar bear in the Yukon, but

laughing and remembering back to that

time when we met, and how stupid it was



maybe it was J. Geils stinking away

with at heavy beat, or I don't know

Led Zep - Barry Mannilow...



and so I was thinking about that woman

in that skimpy outfit riding that stupid bear

and I laughed. I just



laughed.  ... more  </description>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Anstey</dc:creator>
		<category>Polly Wogs &amp;amp; Churlish Goofiness</category>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:21:13 GMT</pubDate>
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