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	<title>The Beat &#187; James McLaughlin</title>
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	<description>A poetry, short story and art showcase.</description>
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		<title>Quack quack</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James McLaughlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a giraffe in the supermarket I’m
sure it was a giraffe coz it walked like a duck
and sounded like a duck and you know
what ‘they’ says &#8211; if a giraffe walks like a duck
and sounds like a duck going quack quack
then it must be a duck -sorry a giraffe
but then again how can it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drillin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James McLaughlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ol’ John B.Henry spent of his days drillin holes
by hittin thick steel spikes into the rock with his
faithful shaker, crouchin so close and a turnin t
he drill with a God almighty blow. There wasno
man in the country could match him Ol’ John B
Henry though many a man tried and many a ma
n failed. Well the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>.river.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James McLaughlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[.febrile. .blue.                                                            
.geranium. ..flower.
.wind. ..then.
.blue.  .gray.
.tiser. ..leaf.
.thistle. ..light.
.tree. .enervate.
.diurnallly. .water plant.
.sunlight.
.proselytize.
.then. ..sun.
.brio.
.bee.  .acerbic.
.sun. ..blue.
.protean. ..heat.
.now.
.shadow.
.water.
.eeled.
sui generis
.then.
.blue.
.sombre.
.vespertine.
.excoriate.
.hyperborean.
.exciled. ..shadows.
.river.
.tree.
.drift.
.blue.
.gray.
.philippic. ..light.
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		<title>Summer Sky</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James McLaughlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So in and out
So up and down
So silent white
So moving white
So out and in
So this and that
So sway and fold
So to and fro
So in and out
So up and down
So horizon wake
So in and out
So up and down
So this and that
So cerulean blue
So in and out
So sway and fold
So up and down
So this and that
So endless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Perfect Poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 10:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James McLaughlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would have to have a river in it
or a stream running down Ben Ailish or
colours, tastes that tang of rose
a précis of luscious adjectives
images that resemble the Golan Heights
chthonic connotations and rainbows
metaphors juiced with desire
things that don&#8217;t mean anything
nouns and verbs of intransitive
it would have to have the word redolent
it would have to have the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leid</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James McLaughlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As oil does on water the
sky kaleidoscopes with blue
where the white horizon was
a warm pelt of bracken
an almost invisible upland ridge
dissipates with compulsion
A 22 carat gold coin
A virtuoso sun
we stood together
toes in a warm silver sand
let me imagine a rose tree
one red one orange
Or a jigsaw garden
all greens and yellows
let me imagine wonderful
let me
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		<title>Fisher King</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James McLaughlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhat bald but tall and strong of limb
Dolorous stroked &#8211; not like his brother who burned
upon a brier over whose body vespers
for the dead were solemnly sung the waste land
Godefer brother of the king who’s death
plunged the land into wilderness and decay
our Roi Pescher was the father fisher of men
like Manu washing his hands in [...]]]></description>
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