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	<title>Down In Me</title>
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	<description>Self-conscious words for subconscious ideas</description>
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		<title>Lucid as London&#8217;s summer days</title>
		<link>http://downinme.com/2008/05/12/lucid-as-londons-summer-days/</link>
		<comments>http://downinme.com/2008/05/12/lucid-as-londons-summer-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 10:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Maladies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://downinme.com/?p=225</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[They didn&#8217;t tell me what life would be like. Their breasts spoke to me in riddles. I would stare and note their attributes: C cups with large, dark brown areolas; pendulous, creamy, pliable. Drooping fried eggs, goose skin nature and distinct self-scent. I thought these breasts were universal. The way they&#8217;re all supposed to be. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Googling for blood</title>
		<link>http://downinme.com/2008/05/08/googling-for-blood/</link>
		<comments>http://downinme.com/2008/05/08/googling-for-blood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 22:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Crap poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Blood is a highly specialised circulating tissue
Blood is a song by a British Indie rock band
Blood is the fluid which circulates
Blood is an album released in 1991
Blood is the liquid containing red cells
Blood is the third episode of the second season
Blood is a bi-monthly medical journal
Blood is essential for life
Blood is a substance that nourishes; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Riptides</title>
		<link>http://downinme.com/2008/05/05/riptides/</link>
		<comments>http://downinme.com/2008/05/05/riptides/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 14:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Melancholy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://downinme.com/?p=222</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was created solar, seafaring, sanguineous. Carved from embattled men, rallying cries and rape. The product of colonial tiles set in the sun baked bones of a well-structured terrace. My salty tears were used to water the crops, raise the tides of the dusty river and pound the white linens clean. My earthly nature robbed; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s true so fuck you</title>
		<link>http://downinme.com/2008/05/03/its-true-so-fuck-you/</link>
		<comments>http://downinme.com/2008/05/03/its-true-so-fuck-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 15:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Storytime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://downinme.com/?p=217</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw Ian Curtis crossing the street. I was on the bus to work and he crossed in front of it. It was a rainy-grey morning and he was wearing grey trousers and a black jacket with an upturned collar. His hair was shiny and dark and his skin was pale. He stared at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corrosive</title>
		<link>http://downinme.com/2008/05/01/corrosive/</link>
		<comments>http://downinme.com/2008/05/01/corrosive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 13:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Maladies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://downinme.com/?p=220</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For Blogging Against Disablism&#160;2008
What do you say to someone who thinks you &#8216;deserve&#8217; what &#8216;happened&#8217; to you? Because it was caused, directly or otherwise, by something you did. Because you should have known better. Because you should have seen it&#160;coming. 
What do you say to someone who thinks your genetic defect is &#8220;nature&#8217;s way of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Pun on the word &#8216;meme&#8217; goes here]</title>
		<link>http://downinme.com/2008/04/29/pun-on-the-word-meme-goes-here/</link>
		<comments>http://downinme.com/2008/04/29/pun-on-the-word-meme-goes-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Zeal]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://downinme.com/?p=219</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[Links to the lovely and sweet bloggers who tagged me go&#160;here]
[Pithy and sarcastic (yet highly entertaining) comments about memes and blogging go&#160;here]
[Meme rules go&#160;here]
[Title of suitably intellectual, but not too pretentious book that will make me seem smart, likeable and sexy goes&#160;here]
[The three sentences after the fifth sentence on page 123 in all their glorious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>48 backwards</title>
		<link>http://downinme.com/2008/04/26/48-backwards/</link>
		<comments>http://downinme.com/2008/04/26/48-backwards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Penance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://downinme.com/?p=213</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wasn&#8217;t very forthcoming earlier. The truth is that I do care, of course I care. I want to be wild and fancy free, hair blowing in the wind, but I&#8217;m shiver shake step by step and&#160;scream. 
When you roll over in bed and you hug yourself close to me with that mortal fear, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The pouting princess and the noble giant</title>
		<link>http://downinme.com/2008/04/22/the-pouting-princess-and-the-noble-giant/</link>
		<comments>http://downinme.com/2008/04/22/the-pouting-princess-and-the-noble-giant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Storytime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://downinme.com/?p=211</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ecause he&#8217;s big and strong, but not that kind of big and strong. He&#8217;s much too big to start fights with the local fishermen, for example. In fact, most of the villagers would run away when they heard his footsteps approaching the town square. Now that they know him, they greet him with the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Santa Maria</title>
		<link>http://downinme.com/2008/04/20/santa-maria/</link>
		<comments>http://downinme.com/2008/04/20/santa-maria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Crap poetry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://downinme.com/?p=107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love your third world charm
You underdeveloped&#160;oddity
Your backward thoughts entice me
Your wayward ways seduce&#160;me
Cheaply made clothing, arresting
Heavy accent on deaf&#160;ears
Native princess of a new century
To plunder, pillage and discover&#160;anew
Big white man claims his prize
Small brown woman&#8217;s willling&#160;surrender
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		<title>My most comfortable position</title>
		<link>http://downinme.com/2008/04/18/my-most-comfortable-position/</link>
		<comments>http://downinme.com/2008/04/18/my-most-comfortable-position/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Higher love]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://downinme.com/?p=202</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Stretched out with my legs perched on his lap, a cigarette between my lips, is my most comfortable position. Except maybe for that moment in bed, when I turn onto my stomach and drift off to sleep, safe in the knowledge that I&#8217;m being watched. Much later, when I open my eyes to find his, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking to the wall, shouting into the void and other such sayings</title>
		<link>http://downinme.com/2008/04/16/speaking-to-the-wall-shouting-into-the-void-and-other-such-sayings/</link>
		<comments>http://downinme.com/2008/04/16/speaking-to-the-wall-shouting-into-the-void-and-other-such-sayings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Crap poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Me
You
Me
You
Me
You
Me
Me
Me
Me
MeYou
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		<title>Iteration</title>
		<link>http://downinme.com/2008/04/13/iteration/</link>
		<comments>http://downinme.com/2008/04/13/iteration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Melancholy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://downinme.com/?p=208</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Once there was and once there was not, plenty of time in which to co-exist and extinguish the various flames while looking into eyes streaming with sincerity. Scattered showers cleansed the forests and motorcycles made love to popsicle sticks that glow. Droplets of sparkle-clean mountains made us laugh. Anguish and austerity, we barely glimpsed through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A barb in the flesh of the psyche</title>
		<link>http://downinme.com/2008/04/10/a-barb-in-the-flesh-of-the-psyche/</link>
		<comments>http://downinme.com/2008/04/10/a-barb-in-the-flesh-of-the-psyche/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Zeal]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://downinme.com/?p=207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Then the little barb in the flesh of the psyche pricks: mine or your, or someone else’s: we can take turns hooking, or drawing in.&#8221; &#8212;Someone&#160;Else
We do. We take turns hooking, or drawing in. We wax and wane on the surface, in the sand, on the riverbed, against the rocks. Take your metaphorical pick. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I am tiresome to myself</title>
		<link>http://downinme.com/2008/04/08/i-am-tiresome-to-myself/</link>
		<comments>http://downinme.com/2008/04/08/i-am-tiresome-to-myself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Penance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://downinme.com/?p=205</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been true to the self-imposed vacuum credo I spouted. I&#8217;m guilty. I&#8217;ve worried too much about words, pretty words, correctly-placed words, ordered words, meaningful words, thoughtful words, words brimming with emotion from the depths of my beautiful soul oh god somebody please hear me! feel me! save me! fuck me,&#160;jesus! 
Bullshit.
From now on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To the one</title>
		<link>http://downinme.com/2008/04/05/to-the-one/</link>
		<comments>http://downinme.com/2008/04/05/to-the-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Crap poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To the one who searched for
Ex boyfriend fucking you over
No, I fuck him daily
To the one who searched for
Mouth throat gag banbana (sic)
Ha
To the one who searched for
Love letters to you ex boyfriend
Confusion breeds illusion (that is not a song lyric)
To the one who searched for
[Random phrases from my writing in quotes]
That is not a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-Boyfriend Letters #13</title>
		<link>http://downinme.com/2008/04/03/ex-boyfriend-letters-13/</link>
		<comments>http://downinme.com/2008/04/03/ex-boyfriend-letters-13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ex-boyfriends]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear&#160;Ex-Boyfriend,
It should gladden you to know that I thought of you today. Cleaning the counter top with new Sainsbury&#8217;s lime-scented all-purpose wipes that smell suspiciously of your cologne, I was reminded of the way you used to spray Thurston Bear with it so that I would continue feeling close to you when you went to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your human drama tickles my nose</title>
		<link>http://downinme.com/2008/03/30/your-human-drama-tickles-my-nose/</link>
		<comments>http://downinme.com/2008/03/30/your-human-drama-tickles-my-nose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Prognoses]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
I can&#8217;t worry about your Greek tragedies and your Shakespearean proclamations. Give me an hour in a room with rainbow colours and a warm sensation any day. When you wake up to your frozen toes in a sea of dark, dank moss, you&#8217;ll see, you&#8217;ll find me, beyond that marker in the field, across a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A day in the life of an oral fixation #6</title>
		<link>http://downinme.com/2008/03/26/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-oral-fixation-6/</link>
		<comments>http://downinme.com/2008/03/26/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-oral-fixation-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Storytime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[9:45 pm - She arrives at her flat and kisses the man on the cheek to say goodnight. She fumbles with her keys and stumbles into the bathroom. She urinates heavily, then washes her face and rinses her mouth out. She brushes the bottom sides, then the front, then the top sides, then the top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imogen, dear</title>
		<link>http://downinme.com/2008/03/24/dear-imogen/</link>
		<comments>http://downinme.com/2008/03/24/dear-imogen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Discourse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear&#160;Imogen,
If I had a tune for every time I&#8217;ve left, I&#8217;d make you an electronic keyboard with 750 pre-programmed sounds. I&#8217;d ship it across the cellophane seas on an origami boat, with a tin can at the helm and a jar of Branston Pickle. I&#8217;ve no doubt it would find it&#8217;s way to you. When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A day in the life of an oral fixation #5</title>
		<link>http://downinme.com/2008/03/19/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-oral-fixation-5/</link>
		<comments>http://downinme.com/2008/03/19/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-oral-fixation-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Storytime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[7:45 pm - She meets a man at an Italian restaurant for supper. She sits across from him at an uncomfortable table and sips red wine. She looks around at people, everyone is filling their mouths with assorted tomato-based pasta dishes. She takes a large sip of wine and swirls it around in her mouth. She [...]]]></description>
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