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  <title>gaping tree fangs!!!!!</title>
  <subtitle>several grains of salt make a pile. i counted.</subtitle>
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    <name>ah_tran</name>
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  <updated>2006-12-13T23:48:34Z</updated>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ah_tran:4124</id>
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    <title>[safely does it]</title>
    <published>2006-12-13T23:48:34Z</published>
    <updated>2006-12-13T23:48:34Z</updated>
    <content type="html">see sunshine scribble courderoy&lt;br /&gt; lines   across eyebrow throughfares&lt;br /&gt; of lost   lemon consciousness  - --&lt;br /&gt;when your irises    twitch, &lt;br /&gt;  their recognition spasms crumble statues &lt;br /&gt; into playgrounds &lt;br /&gt;    plagued by smarmy   spectres</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ah_tran:3892</id>
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    <title>[yukking]     (found poem)</title>
    <published>2006-11-13T05:21:07Z</published>
    <updated>2006-11-13T05:21:07Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Available feeds emailed Reprints Licensing Share Facebook of Save article am.&lt;br /&gt;Stay is up then or running ragged. Right am never concealed his contempt in commander chief actually praised.&lt;br /&gt;When went into of. Women receiving honorary degrees Celebrated. Wklbfm brass am Fire. If of you must or know am yukking am few folks West Broadway of.&lt;br /&gt;He tries or stay up then running in ragged! Hemorrhage a enough watching weve talked am about before wanna entertain! Pops Copley Plaza moments after a?&lt;br /&gt;Already busy he tries stay up then! Reporter is peg Rusconi a husband Hoard playbyplay announcer Pawtucket.&lt;br /&gt;Atop building Perkins a Square. Bell told Extra Daughtrys rendition hit Hemorrhage enough.&lt;br /&gt;Licensing Share Facebook Save article powered form.&lt;br /&gt;Fuel managed Medford in native Paul Geary or also or guides. Bell told Extra Daughtrys rendition hit Hemorrhage enough.&lt;br /&gt;Contempt commander chief. Keith Lockhart way Fairmont of hotel is date. Clinics youre or surrounded by alive or well plan.&lt;br /&gt;Graduation ceremonies is tomorrow Stacey Lucchino wife ceo. Were in going beat Bourne Identity or.&lt;br /&gt;Katie Callahan am prepares in shoot a. Being done people met are front.&lt;br /&gt;Before wanna entertain of again.&lt;br /&gt;Stay is up then or running ragged.&lt;br /&gt;Direct film version Dennis!&lt;br /&gt;Out Southiehe wont bark action another week or.&lt;br /&gt;Very me love my.&lt;br /&gt;Out Southiehe wont bark action another week or.&lt;br /&gt;Sacrifice him these Whdh in not is yet named.</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ah_tran:3717</id>
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    <title>toenail armadas</title>
    <published>2006-09-16T23:53:35Z</published>
    <updated>2006-09-16T23:53:35Z</updated>
    <content type="html">have you seen the horizon's particles parting?&lt;br /&gt; looks like rain dropping from garbage bag&lt;br /&gt;cloud-eyes turn spirals under watchful unibrowed&lt;br /&gt;  bowling leagues, new season approaching &lt;br /&gt;with matches scattered around the imagined maps&lt;br /&gt; of worldwide city councillors, all vying&lt;br /&gt;   for shiny new desklamps to illuminate &lt;br /&gt;  the placement of streetlights and other monuments&lt;br /&gt; to placid civil order&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i saw you scrawling letters across the namplate&lt;br /&gt; to the park, giving the namesake fantastic titles&lt;br /&gt; in hopes of littering the park's landscape &lt;br /&gt;  with just a few of the spaceships the lord&lt;br /&gt;of greenspace piloted to safety through exploding &lt;br /&gt; asteroid fields and vicious attacks by space &lt;br /&gt;  varmints along the wild west wing of the galaxy,&lt;br /&gt; still, i can't help but wonder &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;what you've been doing with those bowling shoes&lt;br /&gt; strapped to your wrist, as though they were &lt;br /&gt; actually manufactured for projectile purposes, &lt;br /&gt;  meant to knock the teeth out of a guffawing &lt;br /&gt; teen bowling enthusiast in secrecy, covert jobs&lt;br /&gt;   undertaken to underwrite society's safety, &lt;br /&gt; security and mundanity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; i saw you escape, &lt;br /&gt;  through an alternate set of clouds,&lt;br /&gt;drawn back past the reaches of my earlobes&lt;br /&gt; by the magnetism of pilfered 3d goggles, &lt;br /&gt;   your goals obscurred more than bruce's &lt;br /&gt; attempt at 300; i saw the clocks shatter,&lt;br /&gt;the springs recoil in dread of &lt;br /&gt;  this can't be happening</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ah_tran:3491</id>
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    <title>[h     bi ap    rth pd apy    ]</title>
    <published>2006-08-24T21:44:43Z</published>
    <updated>2006-08-24T21:44:43Z</updated>
    <content type="html">hey gnarly eyebrows, &lt;br /&gt;watch out for flying cakes&lt;br /&gt;'cos sometimes they contain sharp objects obliquely tucked inbetween thick layers of frosting (delicious delicious frosting) &lt;br /&gt;so don't take any swinging bites      at &lt;br /&gt;anti-gravity           pastries&lt;br /&gt;              ,ok</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ah_tran:3130</id>
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    <title>... .  `.   `.                          ..                                      `</title>
    <published>2006-08-23T22:33:31Z</published>
    <updated>2006-08-23T22:33:31Z</updated>
    <content type="html">this is a new poem,&lt;br /&gt;it is a found poem, discovered in my email inbox&lt;br /&gt;and is entitled [lawless entry]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;lawlessness   Inbox&lt;br /&gt;		&lt;br /&gt;Ernest Walsh 	&lt;br /&gt;&amp;lt;xakzl@aref.es&amp;gt; to me&lt;br /&gt;	 More options	  6:16 pm (13 minutes ago)&lt;br /&gt;Images are not displayed.&lt;br /&gt;Display images below - Always display images from xakzl@aref.es&lt;br /&gt;He could find nothing that was notquite simple in his case: I sought to kill, I must be killed. Actually he was encamped amid his presentwealth rather than dominated by it. That day, theMarquiss arguments were more conclusive than usual. That day, theMarquiss arguments were more conclusive than usual. Beforenext Thursday, I shall leave the paternal roof. I had thought that I detected this love affair. He was no longer thesevere, cold man that we have known. I could forgive everything, except the plan of seducing you becauseyou are rich. Beforenext Thursday, I shall leave the paternal roof. The gaoler, she said to her, blushing deeply, is a cruel man.&lt;br /&gt;He could find nothing that was notquite simple in his case: I sought to kill, I must be killed.&lt;br /&gt;After moral poisoning,one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne. Actually he was encamped amid his presentwealth rather than dominated by it. If this Julien could die byaccident, he said to himself at times . At other moments, he would rise with a bound from his chair. You know very well that it is not of my ownfree will that I part from you.&lt;br /&gt;Or rather a vulgardesire to raise himself to a good position? The gunsmith, at his request, loaded the pistols.&lt;br /&gt;God will pardon me perhaps for rejoicing in my death. Or rather a vulgardesire to raise himself to a good position?&lt;br /&gt;He thanked the abbe, but inthe vaguest terms and without binding himself to anything. This man was as menial and submissive as possible.</content>
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    <title>[sledgehammer sounds]</title>
    <published>2006-08-17T03:50:20Z</published>
    <updated>2006-08-17T03:50:20Z</updated>
    <content type="html">i will eat bubbles &lt;br /&gt;if you count the sky's egg yolks&lt;br /&gt;with my rainbow monocal</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ah_tran:2610</id>
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    <title>dribbles of solar rotations</title>
    <published>2006-07-31T09:14:45Z</published>
    <updated>2006-07-31T09:14:45Z</updated>
    <content type="html">ottawa's provided the sky over my eyes for the past few asleeps and awakes, the sun melting my skin down a few moisture levels through some quick stomping on har-tru, blinking aimlessly at the direct bloodsakes, and dizzying spins through faces who, for my recognition, almost needed a little dusting off for all the time spent unseen&lt;br /&gt;still, the most peculaiar -- and intriguing -- event transpired while daddad's motor vehicle wheeled the parking vortex on york. i remember sharing a smile with a brown-dreaded girl as she passed my windopening, who passed, only to return to offer me a ripe and juicy tomato, fresh from her own garden. i was completely stunned by the situation, and clung to the tomato's plastic sack as we stuttered the crowded byward toward inoffensive szechuan restaurant dishes.</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ah_tran:2387</id>
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    <title>the barnacle island census bureau</title>
    <published>2006-07-25T17:49:23Z</published>
    <updated>2006-07-25T17:49:23Z</updated>
    <content type="html">what des it take to become stalking?    a fellow from the census board continues to call -- this morning, even, while i was still asleep -- insisting that i should finish that ol' rag or a questionairre. i have only the slightest intention of completing it; it is july, after all, no longer the middle of may, by any stretch of the imagination, when the census was, if i recall, meant to take place.  of fact, it asks all its questions based on the week of the fifteenth of may, or so. what an enticingly special week it must have been if robert (that's with the soft, 'air' ending) continues to hound me down to find out about my minute life details during such a slender temporal window.</content>
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    <title>philharmonic eyebrows</title>
    <published>2006-07-25T09:16:59Z</published>
    <updated>2006-07-25T09:16:59Z</updated>
    <content type="html">how incredibly stupendous it is to return home, backpack and luggage still affixed to one's back and hands (respectively), to face a livingroom full of wonderful friends who applaud your entrance.&lt;br /&gt;that, after going back to ottawa for two days under the specific auspice of playing tennis.</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ah_tran:1947</id>
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    <title>ah_tran @ 2006-05-30T21:48:00</title>
    <published>2006-05-31T01:48:42Z</published>
    <updated>2006-05-31T01:48:42Z</updated>
    <content type="html">i am sending beams of inter-nets all across this building &lt;br /&gt;exciting, it is&lt;br /&gt;after hours on the phone&lt;br /&gt;with my good friend videotron&lt;br /&gt;whose new offers are endlessly exciting;&lt;br /&gt; more so with each taped replay &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my new apartment is super fun,&lt;br /&gt;filled with all kinds of chaos&lt;br /&gt;the walls, of fact, are actually made of the stuff (chaos)&lt;br /&gt;and matter, by its own invisible hand, scatters itself&lt;br /&gt;all over the floor&lt;br /&gt;i'm not kidding&lt;br /&gt;at this moment, alone at home&lt;br /&gt;a mess is being made as i type&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if i get well hopefully i will become a stripper &lt;br /&gt;so that i can afford to go to all of the suoni il popolo shows &lt;br /&gt;my electric coughs think that is nonsense, &lt;br /&gt;however, i can see them fading&lt;br /&gt;slowly</content>
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    <title>[pondering the possibility of angels]</title>
    <published>2006-04-03T07:35:11Z</published>
    <updated>2006-04-03T07:35:11Z</updated>
    <content type="html">minutes crawl by&lt;br /&gt;unattended,&lt;br /&gt;unaccomadating &lt;br /&gt;to the tasks they've been assigned&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my attention is diverted &lt;br /&gt;by all the world's identity crises,&lt;br /&gt;while i come to grips &lt;br /&gt;with the recent fashion&lt;br /&gt;of personalized montages &lt;br /&gt;about imaginary existential crises&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my stockpile of macinery hums,&lt;br /&gt;its imitation of breathing louder than my own&lt;br /&gt;i contemplate my place within electro/bio-symbiosis&lt;br /&gt;and realize that i am replaceable:&lt;br /&gt;anyone can find the power switch&lt;br /&gt;and additional languages are easily programmable&lt;br /&gt;(if you need proof, open any zip file;&lt;br /&gt;your spanish is as good as mine)&lt;br /&gt;i pray my cpu can't speak with electric doors&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;what time is it in cyberspace?&lt;br /&gt;a sphere ungoverned by celestial motion&lt;br /&gt;tied down by time merely as a conception,&lt;br /&gt;our theoretical playground&lt;br /&gt;bound by our need &lt;br /&gt;to impose the limits of our mortality&lt;br /&gt;upon, with all we perceive and all which perceives&lt;br /&gt;us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;our perceptions of perfection &lt;br /&gt;are bound to shapes we've erected&lt;br /&gt;in the measurable past,&lt;br /&gt;where we can see&lt;br /&gt;our hands have been</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ah_tran:1494</id>
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    <title>[springtime nomenclature]</title>
    <published>2006-03-25T22:58:49Z</published>
    <updated>2006-03-25T22:58:49Z</updated>
    <content type="html">spring is here,&lt;br /&gt;dancing on our fingertips&lt;br /&gt;its winking eyes raise songs from the bricks of stagnant apartments, melting mortar into lifeblood&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;even the buildings know how to dance&lt;br /&gt;when prompted by the growth of a new growing season&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the windowpanes wriggle,&lt;br /&gt;refract solar rays&lt;br /&gt;into shag carpet rainbows</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ah_tran:1243</id>
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    <title>[aquabatic nursery mindgames]</title>
    <published>2006-03-13T09:59:55Z</published>
    <updated>2006-03-13T09:59:55Z</updated>
    <content type="html">i.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;tadpoles twitch&lt;br /&gt;under the force&lt;br /&gt;of jagged-toothed incandescent bulbs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;as i stare through the glass &lt;br /&gt;of their aquarium-prison,&lt;br /&gt;i begin to wonder-- &lt;br /&gt;do they have a shared destination&lt;br /&gt;outside of themselves?&lt;br /&gt;is the border between nonsense&lt;br /&gt;and logic fictional?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i blink and the glass dissappears&lt;br /&gt;water still holding shape&lt;br /&gt;out of the power of its own free will,&lt;br /&gt;the water's skin holding-dear&lt;br /&gt;its promise of security&lt;br /&gt;amidst telepathic tadpole whines&lt;br /&gt;which beg for statis&lt;br /&gt;in the delicate aquariverse&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ii.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if i should poke its skin&lt;br /&gt;and perforate the water's willed wall,&lt;br /&gt;will the tadpoles once more fly?</content>
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    <title>[sleek sock shuffle]</title>
    <published>2006-03-11T00:57:34Z</published>
    <updated>2006-03-11T00:57:34Z</updated>
    <content type="html">laces for veins,&lt;br /&gt;  treading out into the street&lt;br /&gt; stalagmite icicle beard paws at the ground&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;charles barkley's magic shoes&lt;br /&gt; slipped off his feet&lt;br /&gt; as he ran &lt;br /&gt;   into the technicolour midnight fog&lt;br /&gt;  his magic steps mince winter's face&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;disfigured, the frigid season&lt;br /&gt; slinks off into hibernation</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ah_tran:665</id>
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    <title>[clockwise courderoy]</title>
    <published>2006-03-08T10:01:38Z</published>
    <updated>2006-03-08T10:01:38Z</updated>
    <content type="html">have you ever felt like there are fingerpuppets dancing along your spine?&lt;br /&gt;it's kinda like a tingly feeling,&lt;br /&gt;sparks dancing tap&lt;br /&gt;   clickety-clack&lt;br /&gt; tracing the sine of your vertabrae,&lt;br /&gt;  their electric motion as bound to your muscle memory as string theory          &lt;br /&gt;     holds to invisible particles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;some people prefer sock puppets&lt;br /&gt;  but they're infested with foot fetishes,&lt;br /&gt; drooling at the thought of being tongue tied by toe jam&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;leave the spelling bees to nature&lt;br /&gt;  whose lexicon contains each imaginable entry,&lt;br /&gt; the imaginary superimposed upon the improbable&lt;br /&gt;     words' meanings feel shifts like jet-lag &lt;br /&gt;    under the duress of your fable-circled journals&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in our scrabattles, i occupy vegetation territory, &lt;br /&gt;  hide between the leaves of houseplants from your spasdic fire,&lt;br /&gt;    gibberish swiss-cheeses walls from the stress of endless echoes&lt;br /&gt;   as your tongue traces the intestines of each tile, verbalized&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;your words, dance electric&lt;br /&gt;  as invertebrates,&lt;br /&gt;   without the strings of the puppetmaster&lt;br /&gt;  jangling&lt;br /&gt;    with the twitches of your cranial fingertips</content>
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    <title>[vampire train tracks]</title>
    <published>2006-02-24T19:16:07Z</published>
    <updated>2006-02-24T19:16:07Z</updated>
    <content type="html">my fingers are growing fangs--&lt;br /&gt;fangs, &lt;br /&gt;can you believe it? &lt;br /&gt;   it's difficult to imagine&lt;br /&gt; [where would they fit, afterall?] &lt;br /&gt; but they're sprouting out&lt;br /&gt;all over the place&lt;br /&gt;without the well-sculpted shape of my own bite&lt;br /&gt;  [i still imagine the angles of protrusion my teeth would create &lt;br /&gt;    without the scalpel-sculpting of kershmania the tooth collector&lt;br /&gt;  and dental engineer]&lt;br /&gt;  but my fingers can now bite&lt;br /&gt;    when they spasm simultaneously&lt;br /&gt; into vampire train tracks &lt;br /&gt;   bordered by my clavicle</content>
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