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	<description>Carl&#039;s rich inner life</description>
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		<title>How I write poems</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of my approaches to writing poetry, depending on whether I have anything to write about, and what that may be.
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		<title>In the &#8220;Well, duh&#8221; category&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 23:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Been seeing a lot of news headlines about a study showing that fictional characters can influence real people's behavior. This has only been known since prehistoric times, when storytellers would spin out fables and hero tales around the fire. Ain't progress grand?]]></description>
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		<title>NaPoWriMo 2012, day 30: Remote escapades of envy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the 30th and last day of NaPoWriMo 2012, I decided to go self-indulgent with a bit of dada, but maybe I only reached as far as surrealism. REMOTE ESCAPADES OF ENVY The lost cat who sleeps in my hair is wiser than seven rocks in a quarry that keep forgetting to bite their nails [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NaPoWriMo 2012, day 29: A matter of taste</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm not happy with the title, but it's better than the first two I came up with. Sometimes the title is the most difficult part of the poem. A MATTER OF TASTE Wild strawberries spread over the logs that litter the yard from last fall's tree pruning. Honeysuckle blossoms, yellow and white, hang on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NaPoWriMo 2012, day 28: Entitlement lament</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 04:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ENTITLEMENT LAMENT I am a straight white male American, the zero at the center of the grid from which deviation is measured, room temperature distilled water at sea level; I am nothing. Why, then, won't you pity me? -- Carl Bettis]]></description>
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		<title>NaPoWriMo 2012, Day 27: Dry bones</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dry bones: I think it must have happened that / while my mouth gaped in snores / the sharp end of the night inserted itself / angled through the soft tissue into my brain / and a piece broke off...]]></description>
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		<title>NaPoWriMo 2012, Day 26: Congeries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 04:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've hit another wall, so this time it's stream of consciousness. I have no idea what I'm about to post. (Okay, not entirely stream of consciousness. I added the last line after posting.) Congeries Eels brewed in broth my father used to tell of a boy with a pocket full of worms for fishing, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NaPoWriMo 2012, Day 25: Thank goodness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank goodness William Blake thought Pope beyond redemption, but believed Milton could be saved, and he was the man for the job. He certainly wouldn't let trivialities like time and death stop him. After all, didn't angels delightedly study his works in Eternity? Now we have a pill for that. -- Carl Bettis]]></description>
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		<title>NaPoWriMo 2012, Day 24: The Sin Against the Holy Spirit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You call it a fable; I call it a narrative prose poem, because then it counts. The Sin Against the Holy Spirit After lunch, the celebrated Professor M. took me to see his pegasus. I'd loathed M. upon meeting. He played up every stereotype of the professor, down to the pipe and tweed jacket with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NaPoWriMo 2012, Day 23: Once upon several times</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon several times Shortly after the Big Bang, all the years were packed together. They did not get along. The leap years were cliquish, playing hopscotch and flaunting their extra days; the others considered them freaks. The prehistoric years were loud, inarticulate, and frankly, they smelled. Famine years swarmed the buffet table and cleaned [...]]]></description>
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