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	<description>Youth, Growth, Maturity, Timelessness</description>
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		<title>My dinner on November 24, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jlapre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 4oz glass of eggnog, spiced rum and nutmeg.
A large bowl of cinnamon Life cereal with 1 1/2 percent milk.
Several fist fulls of Cheez Its.
Half of a single serving size gourmet rum cake.
One slice of Pittsfield Rye bread.
Discuss&#8230; 
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		<title>Life Is Like A Tree Leaf</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/life-is-like-a-tree-leaf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
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Life is like a tree leaf,
as far as a life goes;
an extension of you
is the thought of the base,
where things take root and grow
as heritage trees grow.
They too will dry and wilt,
and give back to the earth
what they took in their life.
It all starts as a sprout,
growing from the base stem;
an appendage of God,
one among [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=710&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey Day R&amp;R 11.23.09</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/turkey-day-rr-11-23-09/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blueskyrower</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Dear Friend,
 
Thank you for the thoughtful note.  I’m excited to make the trip out of the city in the next couple days for what I hope is some much-needed R&#38;R.  I’ve recently developed what I believe to be an ulcer and as a direct result, I’ve been losing a lot of blood and suffering from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=700&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love in the Cochlea</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/love-in-the-cochlea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Serenade softness into my coral shell,
holding me close and telling me all before night fell.
There are only waves and sounds on the beach,
like a lot of great things in life, each
with a legend best left for the wind to tell.
My ears are filling with natural sounds,
a feeling like life has had no bounds,
a life like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=626&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Hours of Sleep</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/five-hours-of-sleep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jlapre</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bright piano notes dancing
Cool black coffee
Power nap on the train ride home 
Posted in Poetry       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=624&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Red Boat in Cape Cod</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/red-boat-in-cape-cod/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zucker</dc:creator>
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I’m the luckiest boat in all of Cape Cod.
Row-Row-Row me a-boat-boat.
Let me lazy in the Bay
while the others are at play.
I am a fisherman’s boat,
a serenade’s kind of boat,
a lover’s boat.
I am a simple, life-living boat.
I’m a boat without a care in the sea,
since everything is here in the Bay just for me;
I have a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=601&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fuzz Mountain</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/fuzz-mountain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
When he first saw the stone, his heart lept
-  a soul, a life, a man placed this stone here -
his comforts were aided by the truth of his statement,
man did live here once before.
The prairie was gold and welcomed the sun
- the fruit, the place, the land sustained life here -
its fertility was protected by the way of the world,
and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=524&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>May Be Us</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/may-be-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zucker</dc:creator>
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Posted in Art Tagged: artifact, artifact magazine, ben zucker photo, digital art, may be us, new york, photography, zucker      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=518&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where is our Country now?</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/where-is-our-country-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted in Art, News &#38; Reviews Tagged: america, artifact, artifact magazine, cafferty file      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=505&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Five Rows of Selfless Courage</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/the-five-rows-of-selfless-courage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am in the fifth row, alongside 4000 men who will march with me at the sound of our horn towards an army of evil. I am a loyal, battle-hardened officer of the Grand Legion. I have fought in many wars, and fought alongside some brave, valiant men, only to see them all fall under [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=485&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It Had to Happen</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/it-had-to-happen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It had to happen, one way or another, didn’t it? I shouldn’t be surprised. We all know it was just a matter of time. Am I scared? Shit, I’m scared. I can’t really do anything about it. All I can do now is wait for it to happen. I can see it happening in front [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=475&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Drawing a Circle</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/when-drawing-a-circle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When drawing a circle, it is important to pay attention to the act and the process.
To make a mistake is to mark every moment your mind wanders from the present.
Nothing is more important than the control of your own mind.
When you master that, so too your whole life.
9/30/2007
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		<title>Case of Light</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/case-of-light-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zucker</dc:creator>
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Posted in Art Tagged: artifact, artifact magazine, ben zucker photo, case of light, digital art, zucker      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=466&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inviting Ambition</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/inviting-ambition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here I finally am, standing thirty-six stories above the harbor, in a room full of sport coats, cocktail dresses and inflated ego&#8217;s, poised to break the inevitable silence which occurs when a speaker has run out of material and begs for questions from an awkward grouping of entry level associates and seasoned executives.
I hate the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=236&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Birds on the Ledge</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/the-birds-on-the-ledge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A flock of approximately fifty pigeons hang out on the ledge of the fourth story of the building across the parking lot from my office.  They have a leader who rests separate from all the others, right on the end of this ledge.  When he takes flight, so do the rest.  They [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=410&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jlapre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a poem I had written in 2005 for submission into a anthology put out by Poetry.com.  I am not sure if it was ever published, but readers are encouraged to find out.

The soul is tangible, manageable, and fine
As large as a highway, as thin as it&#8217;s line
Cut across the vast open [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=406&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SLICE</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/slice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zucker</dc:creator>
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		<title>SitCom at the Office</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My office is a playground for situational comedy.
 
Chuck: You inspire me, Joe.
Alex: Chuck, what are you talking about?
Chuck: Come on, look at him!
We all look at Joe, sitting in the corner of the office eating lunch by the window.
Alex: It looks like he’s eating mustard off a paper plate with a plastic knife.
Joe laughs.
Joe: That&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=334&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Birth of Color &#8211; as seen by St. Jerome</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/the-birth-of-color-as-told-by-st-jerome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Professional</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/the-professional/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernie is a professional.  All day he works, clicking, printing, clicking, printing, and clicking and printing.  He loves his work because he can do a good job without thinking.  In the Knowledge Economy work is done without thinking.  This splash of irony is the reason why the world around him is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=362&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tribute to Mr. Butch (Post-Humorous)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re a 56-year old immortal,
and you know what&#8217;s up.
You&#8217;re a limber icon among Allston&#8217;s 
                         List of Legends.
The Pied-Piper, the Mayor,
The unofficial King of Men.
I&#8217;ve watched the Mr. Butch Show
                         1951-2007.
May your dreams be met,
and your destinations found.
Keep on riding that vespa, King,
The beauty in your
                         American Dream.
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		<title>To Be a Cloud</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/to-be-a-cloud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wish I was a cloud because
when I&#8217;d cry, everyone would know.
If I was a cloud, I&#8217;d roam the world
and visit forests with gentle snow in my eyes.
If I was a cloud, I&#8217;d jump here and there
and make wind gusts fly.
If I was a cloud, I&#8217;d laugh and cry in floods of rain
when I mess [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=356&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Darkness Smudges the Best of Intentions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two days ago I feel from the sun
Into a pool of moonlight in the North where I run,
To find people smudged with long, hating, faces
That only show fear when trespassing their spaces.
&#160;
I did not mean to walk on their turf,
I did not know they bought their land off mother earth.
What was the price? Who gives [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=353&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Untitled Poem for a Dog Reincarnate</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/untitled-poem-for-a-dog-reincarnate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I come back
I want to be
A big ole&#8217; tree.
 
And on that tree,
should lay a sign that read,
&#8216;Don&#8217;t pee on me.&#8217;
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		<title>A Question on Life</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/a-question-on-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why does history repeat itself?
Why does the world keep spinning?
Why does a sound move like a wave,
never made and died, but always
moving forward and outward?
Why does its echo live forever?
Why do some questions make sense when asked together?
Because that is the reason life exists.
Because things, all things, can not live without the abilitiy to sustain,
longer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=345&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Dustpile Collects</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a pile of rubble that I see within arm&#8217;s length of me, I see a cornucopia of artifacts that explain the nature of existence up here. The existence of the dust pile and the rubble it collects. There are several bottle caps and cigarette butts scattered among the rubble. From that I know this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=342&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When We Build</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/when-we-build/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for the present delight nor the present use alone. Let it be such work as our decendants will thank us for; and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=339&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Birth of Color</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/the-birth-of-color/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sky is blue
only because
the clouds decided
the sun could pass.
 
And so they allowed
the birth of
what is 
color.
 
Color is chemically
a radiation
infinite.
 
It gives rise to 
innovation
out of thin air.
 
Color
is why
we live today.
  
The sky is blue
because the clouds
always let
the sun pass gracefully.
 
And
colors love 
when the worlds
keep spinning in space. 
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		<title>Incomplete rant.</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/incomplete-rant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jlapre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nights here are stale and warm, streets are devoid of chatter, the only noise it the simulated bell of a street car prowling the downtown grid.  Bums ride bicycles almost as nice as mine, and go about their entrepreneurial endeavors, competing with the city run waste collection monopoly.  My feet slightly ache [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=315&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bonsai, oh Bonsai!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bonsai, oh Bonsai!
Be crazy, be strong, live your life
and be everything you want.
Take in the heavenly moments that make you happy,
and keep enjoying yourself.
Bonsai, you strong being!
Grow, damnit, grow!
Time will pass, and
your greatness will only engorge and better you.
The sun will look for you when it comes around your way,
and it will shine that shine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=311&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Candlewax From My Thoughts On Clouds</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/candlewax-from-my-thoughts-on-clouds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CANDLEWAX FROM MY THOUGHTS
On Clouds
7.27.2009
 
What happens when you conduct electricity in water vapor? I see it happening in the clouds above, clouds so thin and so transparent. The bolts of light are among themselves, not disturbing the earth or the sky. What happens when you add friction to that static, moving the vapor and creating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=280&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BEEN STREET KITCHEN SNIPES</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/been-street-kitchen-snipes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a cold sweat on my brow, and I didn’t put it there. 
My eyes are glazed with hunger, still holding onto some hope for a great lunch. Here I stand, looking at the open fridge in front of me, looking for my signature brown-paper-bag lunch. 
It’s gone! It is gone, taken from this fridge. There’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=256&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Frog and its Coin Pond</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/the-frog-and-its-coin-pond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[     One day, a boy bought a hand-carved frog from a local merchant, rich with coins engraved at its feet, and with red jewels in its eyes. It was small; it fit the palm of the boy’s hand. He placed it on his windowsill, and there it sat for many years. The boy grew up, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=249&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jazzafrezz</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/jazzafrezz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jazzafrezz is in the hotspot,
Cooking over a cool blue fire,
Liquid heat bubbling from below,
And a shower of light from above.
Jazzafrezz is cooking up the nightscene,
Throwing fusion into the heart,
Infusing zest in the soul of every listener,
And making the listeners dance and shout.
Jazzafrezz is the new brain child of modern jazz,
Modern music, modern feelings,
Colored with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=231&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mortis and the Amish</title>
		<link>http://artifactmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/mortis-and-the-amish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mortis stands looking out a window, at the futuristic landscape before him; a metropolis set in the year 2212. It is currently spring in the Northern Americas. Mortis, a young and inquisitive deliveryman for Pop-Top Deliveries, is waiting for any work to come in. It’s Saturday. Thanks to the innovations of modern technology, the delivery [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artifactmagazine.wordpress.com&blog=7711730&post=215&subd=artifactmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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