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  • The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski

    November 6, 2008

    your life is your lifedon’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.be on the watch.there are ways out.there is light somewhere.it may not be much light butit beats the darkness.be on the watch.the gods…

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  • “Modern Love”: XVII [by George Meredith]

    November 6, 2008

    # 17 At dinner, she is hostess, I am host.Went the feast ever cheerfuller? She keepsThe Topic over intellectual deepsIn buoyancy afloat. They see no ghost.With sparkling surface-eyes we ply the ball:It is in…

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  • “Monday Night at KGB” [by Julia Cohen]

    November 6, 2008

    We have the goods for you. Or rather, Jill Bialosky and D. Nurkse have the goods for us. Bialosky is a versatile writer who has published two novels and three collections of poetry and…

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  • The Poets Forum is here! [Sharon Preiss]

    November 5, 2008

    Well, that was a lovely 11 hour day at the job! But I’m not going to bore you with the dull minutia of my day. I’m afraid my "I do this, I do that"…

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  • “Barack Story” [by Jim Cummins]

    November 5, 2008

    Given The Opportunity Just as Hammerin’ Hanksurpassed The Babe,wouldn’t it be the end-all smack—let me be quite frank—if our man Baracksurpassed our Honest Abe? — Jim Cummins

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  • Oh It’s a Good Day [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]

    November 5, 2008

    Ah.  After so much Bar-O-metric pressure, if you see what I’ve done here, punning on the prezelect’s gorgeous name, after so much, I see my facebook friends facebonking their new worries.  I say Not…

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