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		<title>Holiday on the Farm</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anyman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The soap opera organ announces what we can hardly bear to hear. A metal-aproned matron summons the skin ribbon she left on the seat of a Galaxy 500, circa 1969. Her tremolo is a casual torture. We mistake her voice for a choir of a thousand muffled mothers and wobble dutifully in to an Easter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zeno Whole</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joesmith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I save the spaces. No, I&#8217;m no bent surveyor with a three-legged stare bent on destiny, unsettled by innominate expanses, undone by an absence of fences, parsing the plenty. We know how that was manifest. I&#8217;ve never been enamoured of wrought geometries and plaid is a bad parody of place. I save only the spaces: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waukesha Tattoo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joesmith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I Here in the town of the common and the good, only the flashes reach us. There&#8217;s no thunder rumble, no sound to savor, no low music to score the out-of-favor soul. No, first it&#8217;s the din, carried air away east, then rain broken in waves on main street curbs where urges are nearly two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leap</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joesmith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It was intelligence and nothing else that had to be opposed.” &#8211; Søren Kierkegarrd The wind is against me on my pedaled way to work. A bus almost clips me cutting in to its shelter at the curb. A Benz would prefer to run the light and me over to waiting one second more. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sonnet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joesmith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alert as the light that changes color with the weather atop the building some mistake as electric, we&#8217;re mingling our blood and juices without the dolor that ought accompany a great big age of disease. We are lovely here and welcome the change we bring to each brown room. In the phone booth, we tear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Utility</title>
		<link>http://pith.net/pith/original-poetry/utility</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joesmith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pith.net/pith/?p=1639</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I&#8217;m done, love, when the impalpable me has made his sullen exit, scrape clean the meat from my bones. String it in ribbons in the back yard trees. Wait for morning rain and hear the glorified pigeons attempt to sing. Summon then the odiferous ones, the shunned ones, the old utilarians who speak to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>de trop</title>
		<link>http://pith.net/pith/original-poetry/de-trop</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anyman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Half-full of someone like a mother or her lover unbuttoned in dad&#8217;s traveling robe, turned around in an instant, to the strained grace of pointed cameras. A kleptomaniac of attention, eyes pinched in to lit aluminum, hoarding the latest loss of memory in a cipher nation of nervous oblivion, entertaining what remains of the children. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revolution Speeds Evolution</title>
		<link>http://pith.net/pith/observations/essays/revolution-speeds-evolution</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joesmith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While listening to BBC news coverage of Iran on the radio this morning, the words “Revolution speeds evolution” came to my head. At the time, the words fit the current Iran situation very well and time will tell whether there is a revolution, a new election, or crushed hopes and lives. Since it rang in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Traded to Venezuela</title>
		<link>http://pith.net/pith/observations/humor/texas-traded-to-venezuela</link>
		<comments>http://pith.net/pith/observations/humor/texas-traded-to-venezuela#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joesmith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a bold sign of thawing relations between the countries, Presidents Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez announced today that the state of Texas would be traded to Venezuela for Jesus Moronta, a slick-fielding, hard-hitting 14-yr-old shortstop phenomenon, cash considerations and an undisclosed amount of raw, premium coca.]]></description>
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		<title>Nativity Scene</title>
		<link>http://pith.net/pith/writers/joesmith-columnists/nativity-scene</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joesmith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pith.net/pith/?p=759</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are no camels in this combo crèche, assembled in Malaysia, cooked in Singapore. Pieces of play, each in place, dominate the living room, diverting our path to where we cleanse and empty and brush the store-bought teeth, neither sneer nor smile from their snap-tight hold. The lone cow&#8217;s head is broken, decapitated last season, [...]]]></description>
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