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    <description>let me stain your hands</description>
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      <title>8.</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2005 01:28:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>prison walls

three stories of brown concrete

with barbed wire on top

is staring at me

its eyes filled with disgust


he was swallowed whole

with our rent money 

clutched in his hand

a bond five times 

that bad check

they said 300 should be enough

but five hours have passed

and he’s not here 


hypnotized by the thick walls 

with a hope lingering - and dissappearing -

every time they open

i pray to the gods i don’t believe in

that this monster of “justice”

who took my love as an open purchase

will agree on store credit




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thinking back. this poem... (more)</description>
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      <title>7.</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2004 17:51:24 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>they talk about mercy

like it is a reward

something you have to earn

one single mistake

and you’re screwed

a real human being

with a beating heart

and lungs craving air

doesn’t stand a chance

embryos don’t make mistakes

humans on the other hand...


they talk about mercy

while their kids

play funeral marches

on shiny instruments

they wave their signs

and repeat the same

empty words


they talk about mercy

about heaven and hell

about god and jesus

and i wonder 

if they ever 

were sixteen years old

if they ever woke up

under a bench... (more)</description>
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      <title>6.</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2004 23:33:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>they talk about mercy

like it is a reward

like it is something

you have to earn

make no mistakes

and you have a chance


the existance

of a cluster of cells

yet without a beating heart

yet without lungs craving air

seems more important

than the life of the woman

carrying it within


they talk about mercy

while setting off a bomb

while murdering a doctor

while picketing a clinic

while scaring a woman

into taking care of

another human being

when she can't even

take care of herself


show mercy for the unborn, they plead

show mercy for the innocent,... (more)</description>
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      <title>5.</title>
      <link>http://imperfectly.blogdrive.com/archive/5.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:25:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>my faded jeans

are talk more than my lips

and lie a lot les

like a map with a compass

but without the strange symbols</description>
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      <title>4.</title>
      <link>http://imperfectly.blogdrive.com/archive/4.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:23:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>i remember the taste of

carrots from grandma's patch

with a taste of earth

sticking to my tongue

and long spider roots</description>
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      <title>3.</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2004 02:03:16 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>i collect fall leaves

colorful masses of death

reminding me of us</description>
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    <item>
      <title>2.</title>
      <link>http://imperfectly.blogdrive.com/archive/2.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2004 01:14:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>yes, i still exist

despite five hurricanes' rage

but with new respect</description>
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    <item>
      <title>1.</title>
      <link>http://imperfectly.blogdrive.com/archive/1.html</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:35:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>i'm too good at being unhappy. i'm not just good, i'm fucking brilliant. 
&quot;she gotta be kidding.&quot;that's what's running through your mind right now. yes, i gotta be kidding, because there's no such thing as being good at misery, right? i would love to be able to agree with you, but no. you're wrong. 
i have perfected the art of unhappiness, and i'm not proud to admit it. maybe i should be? maybe i should be proud to finally be able to admit that yes, i'm good at feeling miserable, but that doesn't mean i have to be.
let's take a quick recap of the past, just so you can see that i, indeed,... (more)</description>
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