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	<title>Abandoned Towers Magazine &#187; Poems</title>
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		<title>Chocolate Layer Cake</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 23:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K.E. Abel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[life is like a chocolate layer cake reflecting a person’s structured layers on its complicated itinerary first layer rests on a solid surface and molds with instruction or self-taught rules second layer builds character and strength to face a mirage of complexities a third layer ties in brotherly love and its extension to the great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Falling Forever</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K.E. Abel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen, And you will hear The sounds I do Of falling Mile after mile Never landing The sound Of a scream No one can hear Or feel Only the ears of the heart The chords of loss Why the fear When there is no landing Maybe being alone Dropping Expecting something to happen That never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dancer of the Shoe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K.E. Abel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I trip over your shoe string dress or gown and keep walking with a beat but, are you missing a step, let me take you there, or did the ghost of the night take your slippers away- move right, slightly left, back one half step. Dancer of the shoe poem. It is my duty to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dark Eponym</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K.E. Abel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia, a democratic cyber colloquium of web contributors. In the internet age it&#8217;s their collective wisdom that decides who&#8217;s who, not the Encyclopedia Britannica. In the search engine enter the names Mark David Chapman, Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan, John Wilkes Booth, and pages and pages recount their stories. But before them all was Herostratus. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warlock Rites</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K.E. Abel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Baptized in the blood of a lamb, black wooled and horned, upon a dark altar: Blood for the life of Gul&#8217;Dan! Lich-Lords rise, bloodless and wan, to call forth the demon thrall baptized in the blood of a lamb. Dark gods seek the blood of man sing from crooked toothed maw: “Blood for the soul [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stars</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K.E. Abel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I watch the stars go by in the dance of ages a billion billion years in the making while under me the earth turns cool grass under me indigo dome over me and I wonder when people will notice the wreckage of my car wrapped around a tree just below the shattered guardrail with my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Matter of Pride</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K.E. Abel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Shabby guy sprawled on sidewalk empty bottle in his hand, his hat upturned like an open palm. Passersby naturally pass him by. But one lady, one frugally dressed lady bedecked with rhinestones, carrying a shopping bag labeled Al’s Discounts, opens her imitation leather pocketbook and deigns to drop a coin (nickel, dime, or quarter, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sub Way Train</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K.E. Abel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Submission – submission Rejection, rejection Then maybe with luck A rare acceptance Looked on the bright side Have learned from this- No longer, have to look To spell simultaneous]]></description>
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		<title>Time Armor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Cowley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[glossy golden plate same polished shine from first make sword not included]]></description>
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		<title>Remembrance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Cowley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Remembrance I sit alone in messy room, the heat turned off to conserve cash. I think about a nation’s doom and my eternal lack of drive and dash, some basketball games old and new, how long I have been out of work, play songs of laughter and the blues, think how long I&#8217;ve been sick, [...]]]></description>
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