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		<title>i&#8217;ve practically forgotten all about the people i hate. amazing. spencer reese, iii.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[do you remember last summer? we would wake up and eat brunch at barmarche, or le jardin, or l&#8217;orange bleue or dos caminos where we switched seats because you loved the sun and i didn&#8217;t love it as much as you. afterwards, we slowly walked home and you couldn&#8217;t believe i was having a cigarette [...]]]></description>
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		<title>half year, half life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[here are some things i&#8217;ve learned (so far) this year:
1. we must all grow up. we must fend for ourselves, find jobs, keep them, get better at them, hoard enough money to be secure, accept that no one will feed, clothe, and care for us. that your resistance on settling on a viable career path [...]]]></description>
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		<title>desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness. anne carson, the beauty of the husband.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[madness doubled is marriage.
saw anne carson at mcnally&#8217;s last weekend. as i waited in line for her to sign my book, i admonished myself to not say anything stupid as i have done in the past while writers have been signing my books (john updike, chang rae lee, vendela videa, george saunders, etc). she was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aerawrite.com/?p=418</link>
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		<title>he reached to hold what cannot be held. the crossing, cormac mccarthy.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;he reached to hold what cannot be held, what already ran among the mountains at once terrible and of great beauty, like flowers that feed on flesh. what blood and bone are made of but can themselves not make on any altar nor by any wound of war. what we may well believe has power [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aerawrite.com/?p=411</link>
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		<title>he wants to fly into the hand of michelangelo/ and come out painted on a ceiling. the ambition bird, anne sexton.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[today, i woke up early but didn&#8217;t leave my apartment early enough, waited too long for the f train that never came and got re-routed on the a to west 4th and missed my pilates class. $ down the drain. tried to see if i could navigate from the west village to the east village [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[tried to post here several times but i always ended giving up in the middle of the post for lack of things to say. it seems that all i have to say, i&#8217;ve said before and has been said by someone else.
but here i go again (thanks for the query, weonhee).
it&#8217;s the new year and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>i grow old&#8230;i grow old&#8230;i shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. the love song of j. alfred prufrock, t.s. eliot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[long time, no post. i sit in a trading room at my new job and dont have any privacy when it comes to what i&#8217;m doing on my computer. do i jack off and talk to my friends on gchat all day. yeah. do i shop on amazon for 99 cent hardcover books, totally. but, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aerawrite.com/?p=387</link>
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		<title>what matters is this: the kingdom of heaven is good. but heaven on earth is better. thinking is good but living is better. li-young lee, self-help for fellow refugees.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[my days are mostly happy now. i&#8217;m starting my new job in a few weeks even though i&#8217;ve already been pulled into a lot of work for the group. the frenchman and i have now settled somewhat nicely into our new relationship; and i am a happy girlfriend.
i forgot how falling in love is like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>how do i taste, kitty asks. you taste like me, i say.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[long, hard weekend so far. went to the electric zoo festival on saturday at randall island with the frenchman. we met up two of his friends at the park, one of them being kitty (her pseudonym will be explained in due time).
i&#8217;m not much for techno/trance music. i did that rave thang back in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aerawrite.com/?p=357</link>
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		<title>babylon&#8217;s ladies outshine daughters of jerusalem. samuel menashe, in your face.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[goddamn, it&#8217;s the end of august which means summer is over and i haven&#8217;t travelled outside the city once. it&#8217;s nice now though in new york, after several weeks of thunderstorms + rainy afternoon, it&#8217;s cooled down to a breezy 70-something degrees. makes you want to walk around naked or without panties or with a [...]]]></description>
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