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		<title>The Perfect Ending</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gessy Alvarez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[here at noon and I'm rewriting the ending
eating some chocolate covered almonds
leaving brown marks
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		<title>Calamity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gessy Alvarez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poem]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gessyalvarez.wordpress.com/?p=1379</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night during a heavy rainstorm a hundred-year old tree branch fell on top of your car.  <a href="http://gessyalvarez.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/calamity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gessyalvarez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11214623&amp;post=1379&amp;subd=gessyalvarez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gessy Alvarez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“it's never good enough...
no matter
how good you are
compared to the team...
no matter how much you practice
how much
you achieve...
it's never
good enough...” <a href="http://gessyalvarez.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/first/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gessyalvarez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11214623&amp;post=1370&amp;subd=gessyalvarez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caption Poetry</title>
		<link>http://gessyalvarez.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/caption-poetry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gessy Alvarez</dc:creator>
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		<title>Artist-In-Residence</title>
		<link>http://gessyalvarez.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/artist-in-residence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gessy Alvarez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[femininity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[female artists]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[but it amazes me how easily I can let go
pour whiskey in my coffee
feel numb yet buzzed with life
like the women I share the house with
all alive and free and hating and loving
its like a maternity ward
each female artist giving birth <a href="http://gessyalvarez.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/artist-in-residence/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gessyalvarez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11214623&amp;post=1329&amp;subd=gessyalvarez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Happy Couple</title>
		<link>http://gessyalvarez.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/the-happy-couple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gessy Alvarez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You are going to feel a sharp prick,” I say. I try to be as gentle as possible when I make the first puncture into her port. When the needle is in place, I say, “That's the worst of it.” She nods her head and looks down at her free hand. Once the saline drip is connected to her line, I pull out an injection vial filled with bright red Adriamycin, the first drug. She laughs then. “Looks like fruit punch,” she says. <a href="http://gessyalvarez.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/the-happy-couple/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gessyalvarez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11214623&amp;post=1322&amp;subd=gessyalvarez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You</title>
		<link>http://gessyalvarez.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gessy Alvarez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perception]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[is the color of my skin so distracting
are the dark spots
on my elbows and knees
so enticing
that You can’t see me <a href="http://gessyalvarez.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/you/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gessyalvarez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11214623&amp;post=1315&amp;subd=gessyalvarez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gessy Alvarez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poem]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[kiki smith]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[face down
nose buried in your still warm pillow
deep in the down 
 <a href="http://gessyalvarez.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/bed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gessyalvarez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11214623&amp;post=1291&amp;subd=gessyalvarez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weak Knees</title>
		<link>http://gessyalvarez.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/weak-knees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gessy Alvarez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[femininity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[a parakeet
curled up feathers, blue-green with yellow specs
her song is a short tweet inherited from a prehistoric line
of passive females <a href="http://gessyalvarez.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/weak-knees/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gessyalvarez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11214623&amp;post=1282&amp;subd=gessyalvarez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inwood Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 06:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gessy Alvarez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sound of a girl screaming wakes us in the middle of the night
she’s standing out on the fire escape <a href="http://gessyalvarez.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/inwood-night/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gessyalvarez.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11214623&amp;post=1259&amp;subd=gessyalvarez&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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