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		<title>Longer Ago</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[By Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spoon Jackson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[poems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spoon Jackson's book of poems -- Longer Ago -- is now available on lulu.com
Here's one of my favorite of Spoon's poems.
  
DARKENED ROOM
 
I sit in a darkened room
to hide
from nothing in particular.
I sit in a darkened room
to think
about nothing in particular.
I knock one devil on his ass,
ten more appear.
The angels, they want to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Spoon Jackson's book of poems --<em> Longer Ago</em> -- is now available on <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/longer-ago/7604067">lulu.com</a><br />
Here's one of my favorite of Spoon's poems.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">DARKENED ROOM</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I sit in a darkened room</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">to hide</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">from nothing in particular.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I sit in a darkened room</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">to think</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">about nothing in particular.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I knock one devil on his ass,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">ten more appear.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The angels, they want to stay</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">in the heavens, safe among the stars,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the lights of dusty immortality.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The devils swoop like hawks,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">they swarm around the head</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">like summer flies.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I sit in bare-footed silence</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">chiseled in-between the two,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">trying to keep symmetry.</span></p>
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