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	<title>the meaning you make</title>
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	<description>"in a poem, the cadence and atmosphere of a word can weigh more than its meaning"</description>
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		<title>everyone is searching for his tribe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[poem of the day from poetry daily
Ecclesiastes
The trick is that you&#8217;re willing to help them.
The rule is to sound like you&#8217;re doing them a favor.
The rule is to create a commission system.
The trick is to get their number.
The trick is to make it personal:
No one in the world suffers like you.
The trick is that you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>no me, no you, no opinions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time tooling around on poetryfoundation.org &#8212; there is so much &#8212; and last night I started with &#8220;Often I Imagine the Earth&#8221; by Dan Gerber which led me somehow to &#8220;Somewhere&#8221; by Robert Creeley and then I had to read everything they have on the site by Creeley, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themeaningyoumake.com/665/no-me-no-you-no-opinions/</link>
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		<title>and here is your lanyard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[poetry can be funny&#8230;
&#8220;the lanyard&#8221; by billy collins

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		<link>http://themeaningyoumake.com/659/and-here-is-your-lanyard/</link>
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		<title>there is a light somewhere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[why is the heart laughing?
&#8220;the laughing heart&#8221; by charles bukowski
read by tom waits

The Laughing Heart
Charles Bukowksi
your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>people still read books&#8230; right?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Charlie Rose discussing the future of fiction and who (if anyone) is actually reading (in 1996 mind you-though these topics seem just as applicable if not even more so) with writers David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Mark Leyner.
&#8220;there&#8217;s this part that makes you feel full&#8221; &#8211; DFW


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		<title>it is tired of trying to be stouthearted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am still recovering from the reading of Infinite Jest. I feel confident that I have watched every David Foster Wallace interview available online. While I have found some answers, even more questions arise. When I read this poem today I could not help but think of DFW and IJ and all the characters that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themeaningyoumake.com/629/it-is-tired-of-trying-to-be-stouthearted/</link>
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		<title>the entertainment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace in October. I finished it last night. I am not a slow reader. I read it almost every single day. It is a challenging book, is what I am getting at. And long. 981 pages; 1079 with footnotes. And the font isn&#8217;t that large and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themeaningyoumake.com/617/the-entertainment/</link>
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		<title>a thousand years would fail to blur the still profiled reproach of</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Dream Song 29
by John Berryman
There sat down, once, a thing on Henry’s heart
só heavy, if he had a hundred years
&#38; more, &#38; weeping, sleepless, in all them time
Henry could not make good.
Starts again always in Henry’s ears
the little cough somewhere, an odour, a chime.
And there is another thing he has in mind
like a grave Sienese [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themeaningyoumake.com/611/a-thousand-years-would-fail-to-blur-the-still-profiled-reproach-of/</link>
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		<title>the one unlikely mouse</title>
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The Country
by Billy Collins
I wondered about you
when you told me never to leave
a box of wooden, strike-anywhere matches
lying around the house because the mice
might get into them and start a fire.
But your face was absolutely straight
when you twisted the lid down on the round tin
where the matches, you said, are always stowed.
Who could sleep that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themeaningyoumake.com/603/the-one-unlikely-mouse/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Alcohol&#8217;s the only thing that&#8217;ll kill you when in withdrawl&#8230; Not even heroin can do that.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the short non-fiction piece &#8220;Blue&#8221;, Mary B. Valencia subtly draws parallels between the alcoholic behavior of her lover that lands him in rehab and the home renovation phenomenon she finds herself entrenched in. The dismantling of two lives, their love and their home and the subsequent attempts at rebuilding (not all successful) is made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themeaningyoumake.com/590/alcohols-the-only-thing-thatll-kill-you-when-in-withdrawl-not-even-heroin-can-do-that/</link>
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