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	<description>Words from the mind of Marcus Byron Cheney</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Selfish sharing.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If all else fails
Wear a stupid grin
Smile so big
You let the sunshine in
Darkness only when
I close my eyes
Drowning in
A hawaian sunrise
Its a big suprise
When you realize
You are
All that surounds you
Hold inside
Your soul to hide
And we can be
Forever
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If all else fails<br />
Wear a stupid grin<br />
Smile so big<br />
You let the sunshine in</p>
<p>Darkness only when<br />
I close my eyes<br />
Drowning in<br />
A hawaian sunrise</p>
<p>Its a big suprise<br />
When you realize<br />
You are<br />
All that surounds you</p>
<p>Hold inside<br />
Your soul to hide<br />
And we can be<br />
Forever</p>
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		<title>Scenicly ugly.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shadows of the street form friction
In two bit hollow hotel rooms
While the vacancy light
Flickers
On the street a homeless person
Shivers into a bottle
once a child and inocent
Now judged and guilty
In the cracks in the pavement
Grass is growing
Around the fire hydrant
Even the tree&#8217;s are in cages
The sidewalk launces you
Into new realitys
One face a second
Traveling at the speed
Of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shadows of the street form friction<br />
In two bit hollow hotel rooms<br />
While the vacancy light<br />
Flickers</p>
<p>On the street a homeless person<br />
Shivers into a bottle<br />
once a child and inocent<br />
Now judged and guilty</p>
<p>In the cracks in the pavement<br />
Grass is growing<br />
Around the fire hydrant</p>
<p>Even the tree&#8217;s are in cages</p>
<p>The sidewalk launces you<br />
Into new realitys<br />
One face a second<br />
Traveling at the speed<br />
Of fiction</p>
<p>Cars whip in and out<br />
Going in unknown directions<br />
With an idea or desire<br />
As the navigator </p>
<p>I sit on my stoop<br />
And a crow enjoys a meal<br />
From a trash can<br />
Till a cat scares him away</p>
<p>I think of beaches, gardens and mountains<br />
As concrete, rubbish and sky scrappers.</p>
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		<title>Intraterrestrials.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
This is life at 175 decibels
my ear drums quake
as I wobble
around ex-patriots
of every sub culture
addicted to the bass
a thirst for that taste
of truth
fornicating our own fiction
post apocalyptic beauty
in a tiny death
draw a deep breath
life is excess
and explosive
been up against
the ropes so long
I start to own it
and the dark souls
swirl in an orgy
of chaos
individual
to the optics
your [...]]]></description>
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This is life at 175 decibels<br />
my ear drums quake<br />
as I wobble<br />
around ex-patriots<br />
of every sub culture<br />
addicted to the bass<br />
a thirst for that taste<br />
of truth<br />
fornicating our own fiction<br />
post apocalyptic beauty<br />
in a tiny death<br />
draw a deep breath<br />
life is excess<br />
and explosive<br />
been up against<br />
the ropes so long<br />
I start to own it<br />
and the dark souls<br />
swirl in an orgy<br />
of chaos<br />
individual<br />
to the optics<br />
your mind<br />
is the last thing<br />
you find<br />
whats lasting<br />
is the chemical bonds<br />
between rough ripples<br />
we dance hard<br />
with hardly a purpose<br />
and on the surface<br />
all things seem clear<br />
we hide our fear<br />
with shields of smiles<br />
melt with me<br />
reform in the morning<br />
their is no warning<br />
or way<br />
all their is , is today<br />
make monuments<br />
out of the sand<br />
and leave the rest<br />
to burn  </p>
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		<title>Waiting in the snow of slow rain.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Sad songs
Soft whispers
In search
Of a papable heart
Spring sprung
Out of a sputtering
Winter
Leaving me stuttering
Filling in the blank space
With words
Burning memories for warmth
Planting flowers
Inside my corpse
Growing violently
Upwards towards
The sun
Comming up short
Leaving
Air and opertunity
Fecundating
Spilling seeds
Cyclical
And its a picnic
Not money , cars and cavier
Desires are matchsticks
The light anywhere kind
I flick one
Off the heal of my boot
It doesn&#8217;t react
So I [...]]]></description>
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<p>Sad songs<br />
Soft whispers<br />
In search<br />
Of a papable heart<br />
Spring sprung<br />
Out of a sputtering<br />
Winter<br />
Leaving me stuttering<br />
Filling in the blank space<br />
With words<br />
Burning memories for warmth<br />
Planting flowers<br />
Inside my corpse<br />
Growing violently<br />
Upwards towards<br />
The sun<br />
Comming up short<br />
Leaving<br />
Air and opertunity<br />
Fecundating<br />
Spilling seeds<br />
Cyclical<br />
And its a picnic<br />
Not money , cars and cavier<br />
Desires are matchsticks<br />
The light anywhere kind<br />
I flick one<br />
Off the heal of my boot<br />
It doesn&#8217;t react<br />
So I strike<br />
 her peach face<br />
We know fruit spoils<br />
So we engulf and enjoy<br />
Life has always been<br />
The minority of death<br />
So slip slow<br />
And suck suppely<br />
On the marrow<br />
If not today<br />
It will come tomarrow</p>
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		<title>Giggles.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I have grown from the basements
blossoming flowers
in window shutter boxes
the sun has come in
slowly
and I sit for days
contemplating my own skull
and the useless
interior
that makes up the space
between my body
all of it
I will never understand
waiting for the ships to come in
I turn a rejection letter in my hand
this does not grant me passage
but I don&#8217;t wish [...]]]></description>
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I have grown from the basements<br />
blossoming flowers<br />
in window shutter boxes<br />
the sun has come in<br />
slowly<br />
and I sit for days<br />
contemplating my own skull<br />
and the useless<br />
interior<br />
that makes up the space<br />
between my body<br />
all of it<br />
I will never understand<br />
waiting for the ships to come in<br />
I turn a rejection letter in my hand<br />
this does not grant me passage<br />
but I don&#8217;t wish to board<br />
I am bored<br />
and you are boring<br />
only thin spokes<br />
of poetry<br />
keep the wheel turning<br />
as we build our existence<br />
off our indifference<br />
we make our insignificant sounds<br />
but we are to proud<br />
to bend or brake<br />
stay safe<br />
never contemplate<br />
your own death<br />
why live as fire<br />
when your eternity<br />
is dirt<br />
we strive<br />
to give our lives some worth<br />
but it&#8217;s to much work<br />
love is pain<br />
and always hurts<br />
we are losing<br />
but the losers win<br />
thats why I have this grin<br />
and your wondering<br />
why I am laughing </p>
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		<title>Pure.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Here I am on the back porch
Dreaming again, always dreaming
Its a lucid ocean with just
enough bubbles to breath
Playing all fifty two cards
I thought it was hearts
And they all call rummy
Its warmer indoors these days
So I sleep because I am dreaming again
And I always remember just enough
to forget
The sky is forever blue
And we wonder
What to make [...]]]></description>
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<p>Here I am on the back porch<br />
Dreaming again, always dreaming<br />
Its a lucid ocean with just<br />
enough bubbles to breath<br />
Playing all fifty two cards<br />
I thought it was hearts<br />
And they all call rummy<br />
Its warmer indoors these days<br />
So I sleep because I am dreaming again<br />
And I always remember just enough<br />
to forget<br />
The sky is forever blue<br />
And we wonder<br />
What to make of this existence<br />
On the verge of cosmic concoisness<br />
I reach out into the darkness<br />
searching for strange sighns of life<br />
Know it will all one day<br />
Make sense in the morning<br />
We have been here<br />
A thousend times before<br />
I&#8217;m at the door between my past<br />
and my future flying in fast<br />
I step out to the beyond<br />
Going from peon<br />
To self proclaimed king<br />
But its just the motion<br />
Of the waves again<br />
Pushing me in any direction<br />
With the highist of highs<br />
And the lowest of lows<br />
With no road map<br />
Of where to go<br />
The mellow drama<br />
Plays like violins<br />
and chellos<br />
I bellow soft into the stars<br />
and take my throne at<br />
Dive bars</p>
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		<title>Hour glass figures</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caught between time and transit
She tries to muse the ghost
Out of sage like banter
We both belived love was a cancer
Cookie cut
Like plot lines in smut
We are gluttens for punishment
Being ever so full
On humble pie
Now wiping the dirt from my eye
She tells me to take what&#8217;s mine
And its trials and tribulations
With no congradulations
Or even a heaven [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Caught between time and transit<br />
She tries to muse the ghost<br />
Out of sage like banter<br />
We both belived love was a cancer<br />
Cookie cut<br />
Like plot lines in smut<br />
We are gluttens for punishment<br />
Being ever so full<br />
On humble pie<br />
Now wiping the dirt from my eye<br />
She tells me to take what&#8217;s mine<br />
And its trials and tribulations<br />
With no congradulations<br />
Or even a heaven for saving<br />
And I wouldn&#8217;t say it rains all day<br />
But sometimes the clouds do come in<br />
And you have to wade through them<br />
Like tiddle waves and pave the way<br />
Into the grey oblivion<br />
A slow retirment<br />
In a fast car<br />
From the chaos<br />
To fishing peacfull streams<br />
Piercing fish faces<br />
And it all seems for nothing<br />
But sometimes a smile<br />
Makes up for the<br />
Clouds and muddy banks<br />
And you say thanks to something<br />
Even if its nothing<br />
Knowing the rain will one day<br />
Go away<br />
Disapaiting and reinflating the clouds<br />
And now its comming down<br />
And I have heard that the big white lie<br />
In the sky likes to drink<br />
When he does he pours<br />
Lighting crashes down<br />
And he is setteling scores<br />
That&#8217;s where we differ<br />
I require something stiffer<br />
The soft glimmer<br />
And sincere shimmer<br />
Of eyes<br />
Behind a brilliant<br />
Smile.</p>
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		<title>Guild of smoke.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Lunch time in garland
Judy and her red shoes are gone
Now angels want to wear them
Till the souls are flat
And the heel has worn down
The tin man would frown
If he didn&#8217;t pawn his heart
The lion still wasn&#8217;t brave enough
To save any of us
If I had a brain
Instead of a match in my hand
I could make you [...]]]></description>
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<p>Lunch time in garland<br />
Judy and her red shoes are gone<br />
Now angels want to wear them<br />
Till the souls are flat<br />
And the heel has worn down<br />
The tin man would frown<br />
If he didn&#8217;t pawn his heart<br />
The lion still wasn&#8217;t brave enough<br />
To save any of us<br />
If I had a brain<br />
Instead of a match in my hand<br />
I could make you understand<br />
Before the inferno<br />
Makes me glow<br />
In the brilliant light<br />
You see me<br />
Forever ablaze </p>
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		<title>Black feathers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The crows want me to write a poem
So I abide
When the moutains colide the land
We will be at the bottom of the quick sand
Our sentiments are now sediments
And we return home
Its where the heart is
Hidden behind the tight grasps of rib cages
Hidden between the verse of my odd thoughts
All the forget-me-knots grew taught
Till there grip [...]]]></description>
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<p>The crows want me to write a poem<br />
So I abide<br />
When the moutains colide the land<br />
We will be at the bottom of the quick sand<br />
Our sentiments are now sediments<br />
And we return home<br />
Its where the heart is<br />
Hidden behind the tight grasps of rib cages<br />
Hidden between the verse of my odd thoughts<br />
All the forget-me-knots grew taught<br />
Till there grip was a crucifex<br />
Its all fluid congruence<br />
And I will never be through with it<br />
Life is for taking what you deserve<br />
Speaking loud so you can be heard<br />
You are the bird singing in the tree for me<br />
So be and let be</p>
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		<title>Wait just a second.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
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And the whole world passes you by.
In the blink of an eye
The pulsaiting veins
Drone to a painfull rythm
We ask to be forgiven
From the stars
And dive bars
Sad creatures
Paste smiles
Above push up bra&#8217;s
Fake tits
And vagabond scars
And she swears I&#8217;m diffrent
From the mix of our perfume
So I lift her, pull her from the rubble
All this trouble for a [...]]]></description>
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<p>And the whole world passes you by.<br />
In the blink of an eye<br />
The pulsaiting veins<br />
Drone to a painfull rythm<br />
We ask to be forgiven<br />
From the stars<br />
And dive bars<br />
Sad creatures<br />
Paste smiles<br />
Above push up bra&#8217;s<br />
Fake tits<br />
And vagabond scars<br />
And she swears I&#8217;m diffrent<br />
From the mix of our perfume<br />
So I lift her, pull her from the rubble<br />
All this trouble for a glimce<br />
Of existence<br />
Till we are both transfixed<br />
On our love sickness<br />
Captian Ahab needs rehab<br />
Or his bow might break<br />
Lost at sea<br />
We seek any port<br />
When we see the storm aproaching<br />
Till we retreat as fast<br />
As we enchroached<br />
Pouching souls<br />
For surival<br />
Each head we step on<br />
To our valhala<br />
We eventually fall down on<br />
To our hell<br />
So I sit in the middle<br />
And watch the seasons change<br />
As all the mental people<br />
Play their deranged games</p>
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