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  Caught in the Headlights this month was, you guessed it, Tracey Paradiso, go ahead and read the glaring truth about this questionable character.

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For Those with Trouble Signing Up - 01/09/2006
by Stephan Anstey

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Coming soon!!! - 12/29/2005
by Steve Podielsky

Hey merry typers, scrawlers, emoters and brawlers
it's coming soon
roll up your sleeves
a poetic smackdown
"The Challenge of the Steves!"

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by Steve Podielsky

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Goodnight Mr. Pryor! - 12/10/2005
by Steve Podielsky

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Poem of the Day for 01/10/06

Afternoon Moon and Bamboo
by Kathleen Wilson




In my small house
awakened by the afternoon,
I leave my work
and walk out into the sunlight.

Behind a bamboo fence
I sit with my bamboo plant,
waxing poetic.

Above,
a white moon,
half-full,
is waiting.

01/07/1980

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Afternoon Moon and Bamboo Copyright © 2006 Kathleen Wilson

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