<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8019150</id><updated>2011-08-01T12:07:04.234-07:00</updated><title type='text'>TheGeminiEgo-CrushingMachineCompany</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darkcandy.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8019150/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darkcandy.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' 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/&gt;Old men of fairy tales, Screaming from each window&lt;br /&gt;"Save us from each other, Save us from ourselves"&lt;br /&gt;Watching, the house ascends&lt;br /&gt;Into ashes and embers&lt;br /&gt;Into ashes and fireflies&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8019150-2496553262264240172?l=darkcandy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darkcandy.blogspot.com/feeds/2496553262264240172/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8019150&amp;postID=2496553262264240172' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8019150/posts/default/2496553262264240172'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8019150/posts/default/2496553262264240172'/><link rel='alternate' 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holds the light&lt;br /&gt;that seems so visible to others;&lt;br /&gt;risible in my thoughts, so easily spurred,&lt;br /&gt;so commonly spurned&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i know the line of her, that string of words&lt;br /&gt;they depend on her for life and happy they are&lt;br /&gt;because she never lets them down&lt;br /&gt;as they leave those lips, more are cloned&lt;br /&gt;to make their way&lt;br /&gt;to where they've been before,&lt;br /&gt;a vast estate inside her skull&lt;br /&gt;the sheer'd energy foaming on her tongue&lt;br /&gt;isn't she lovely, this Venus of the commonplace&lt;br /&gt;is she not unique like everyone else&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more tomorrow. and&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8019150-5510349793244685633?l=darkcandy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SY6SwQXUeP8/S3qzhMwck9I/AAAAAAAAABw/pZNxAda_deg/S220/meblue2small.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8019150.post-6974052084354993938</id><published>2009-11-11T07:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-11T07:44:12.200-08:00</updated><title type='text'>green tower terrace (on the balcony, with apologies to du fu)</title><content type='html'>no wind in the trees&lt;br /&gt;a woman walking down the path below&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a squirrel scampers&lt;br /&gt;from branch to branch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;here is the home&lt;br /&gt;of yet another man&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;some layers of his life&lt;br /&gt;displayed in heaps and piles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;thoughts, ghost memories&lt;br /&gt;beginning in the bedroom&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;leading through the sliding door&lt;br /&gt;to the pair of chairs outside&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and all these conversations&lt;br /&gt;making a haunting aria&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;their meaning only now&lt;br /&gt;starting to rise and fall&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;just like the lovely boys&lt;br /&gt;who dwell above&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;just like the mother and child &lt;br /&gt;who live below&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;where is the powder and charge&lt;br /&gt;of their doings&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all there is, all told&lt;br /&gt;a bicycle unused, an unlit chimenea&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sadness overwhelms my senses&lt;br /&gt;i have to close my eyes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;to lay on my side&lt;br /&gt;to dream of other days&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all of us in this place&lt;br /&gt;restless and never certain&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;anything but certain&lt;br /&gt;aware of all too much&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8019150-6974052084354993938?l=darkcandy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SY6SwQXUeP8/S3qzhMwck9I/AAAAAAAAABw/pZNxAda_deg/S220/meblue2small.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8019150.post-113901842373309539</id><published>2006-02-03T17:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-02-04T20:09:59.480-08:00</updated><title type='text'>imago</title><content type='html'>the small image of the world&lt;br /&gt;embossed in leather&lt;br /&gt;resides rightly behind glass&lt;br /&gt;hiding its secret geometry,&lt;br /&gt;coursing latitudes and longitudes,&lt;br /&gt;majestic oceans, its deep sea basins&lt;br /&gt;full of salty tears and glowing after-life;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;great ranges of mountains&lt;br /&gt;enshrouded by cloud banks and cold still air&lt;br /&gt;middens for a slumbering geology&lt;br /&gt;lush valleys bisected by pulsing rivers&lt;br /&gt;bounded always by deserts and tundra,&lt;br /&gt;by horizons of blue and white,&lt;br /&gt;by desolation, by oblivion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;an invisible hand controls her,&lt;br /&gt;pinioned between two fat fingers,&lt;br /&gt;rotating inexorably,&lt;br /&gt;suspended above his terrible visage,&lt;br /&gt;gaping maw of the Creator,&lt;br /&gt;perhaps he will swallow her like a grape&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8019150-113901842373309539?l=darkcandy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darkcandy.blogspot.com/feeds/113901842373309539/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8019150&amp;postID=113901842373309539' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8019150/posts/default/113901842373309539'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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/&gt;wind and sun a faded wash&lt;br /&gt;black rolling india river-ink&lt;br /&gt;an horizon line of muddled lead&lt;br /&gt;behind a stand of yew&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;white golden grass forced of&lt;br /&gt;fen and rush in sap-green hues&lt;br /&gt;a still-water pond raw umber banks&lt;br /&gt;mercurial in dampened brush;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a view toward as well as from&lt;br /&gt;each recess filled with harmony&lt;br /&gt;only her humid breath bears softened&lt;br /&gt;the dissent of form and spirit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8019150-109301802656857242?l=darkcandy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darkcandy.blogspot.com/feeds/109301802656857242/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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