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		<title>All the Time</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Malcolm McCollum]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[I like to stand outside in the winter night, a glass of gin in my hand, and watch the sky go by above me, half moon a white lemon with its companion star, the star two stars, then one if I concentrate while the clouds veil and unveil it all, and my focus shifts between [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Keep Moving</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just keep moving, across the open field and into the woods. Don’t look back until you reach the sea. Run until your lungs are ready to burst and every nerve shoots red-hot fire through your lost body, the soft sand under your feet, the salty air welcoming you home to the only place you understand, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[In the old bazaars of Shiraz—where once the merchants weighed saffron by the gram—the fires now illuminate not spice, but anger. A boy, barely sixteen, lights a rag in a glass bottle. He’s not a thug, he’s a student who hasn’t seen meat in months. He’s not burning the bank for fun—he’s burning it for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Poem on the Wind</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Stephenson]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[A poem on the wind lands wherever it&#8217;s taken, whether in your thoughts or mine, or on the dry red soil, glittering in the summer heat. I can see the last of the species scribbling away in a fevered dream as the sun burns the ground, furnace in the lungs, vivid colors flooding the mind, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Looking for Real</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Stephenson]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[The world I have come to know is just an artificial display of holographic shapes gliding across my line of sight and disappearing into nothingness, tedious reflections in a dull mirror. But every so often, someone comes along who is dramatically different, a living, breathing person, warm, radiant, true, and connected to my inner experience. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Get the Message</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Stephenson]]></dc:creator>
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