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		<title>THE YEAR GONE BY</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2011/12/the-year-gone-by/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had gone back to my hometown to work hard and try to find myself again, which turned out to be more of a beginning than end. On a whim I opened a place for people to eat, and realized that it was I, I still needed to meet. “Look how happy you make people,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRON GATE ALL HALLOWS EVE</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2011/10/iron-gate-all-hallows-eve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I sat and pondered All Hallows Eve, a dark cloud descended on my soul, mournful sorrow its only goal. And then the ghost of my porch stood silently and stared, urging me to ponder further if I dared. So I searched the deepest reaches of my mind, waiting for this skeleton jackal to opine. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LIFE THE POEM</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2011/09/life-the-poem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life began simple enough, a family, friends and just enough stuff. We’d spend summers at the beach, swim in the ocean, and building a sandcastle was a powerful notion.  I usually walked on the beach as the sunset in the sky, the wind of change bringing a tear to my eye. At night I would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ON THE PORCH</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2011/08/on-the-porch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kansas poems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago I sat on a porch and rocked, writing a poem about being Grand Again, words of a man that called a hotel on Mackinac Island a friend, but more than this a beginning and end. Last night I sat on the porch of Iron Gate and rocked, visited by a friend, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GRAND AGAIN</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2010/05/grand-again-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 18:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreword by Stan Lerner: it&#8217;s that season again, when we should all take a little time and travel around the country. One of my greatest adventures (August 2008) took me to the state of Michigan where I explored Greenfield Village and then headed for Mackinac Island&#8211;what an incredible place! There I sat and wrote the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE RAVEN</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2009/10/the-raven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreword by Stan Lerner: Edgar Allan Poe was finally given a funeral befitting one of the greatest writers to have ever lived—a debt of gratitude is owed to the city of Baltimore for this. Edgar Allan Poe and I share January 19th as a birthday and it is the poem below that he wrote just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poets on the Corner of 5th and Main</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2009/08/poets-on-the-corner-of-5th-and-main/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec Silverman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, August 27th, at eight- o’clock, The Third Area presents the last poetry reading of the summer at Pharmaka gallery on the corner of 5th and Main.  This is an extraordinary opportunity for readers to get a dose of vital and utterly current poetry read by the top notch poets themselves, in a setting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got More Poetry</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2009/08/got-more-poetry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec Silverman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reminder to poetry lovers, Pharmaka has “The Third Area” poetry reading featuring four poets with wine and noshes on Thursday, August 27th.  Below the info are two poems new to downtownster by famous Persian poets. Pharmaka Gallery 101 West 5th Street (corner of 5th and main) Los Angeles (213) 689-7999 “The Third Area” poetry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Poem By Jeannine Hall Gailey</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2009/07/a-poem-by-jeannine-hall-gailey/</link>
		<comments>http://downtownster.com/2009/07/a-poem-by-jeannine-hall-gailey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alec Silverman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Female Comic Book Superheroes are always fighting evil in a thong, pulsing techno soundtrack in the background as their tiny ankles thwack against the bulk of male thugs, They have names like Buffy, Elektra, or Storm but excel in code decryption, Egyptology, and pyrotechnics. They pout when tortured, but always escape just in time, still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A POEM BY LAURIE ZUPAN</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2009/07/a-poem-by-laurie-zupan/</link>
		<comments>http://downtownster.com/2009/07/a-poem-by-laurie-zupan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[july at dusk everything is in motion ribbons of light race across the sky summer sunset begins, painted above the azure ocean ribbons of light snake through this dynamic city rush hour blur of red and white here, at sixth and grand the red light a glancing touch an unexpected gesture a summer kiss&#8230; Bookmark [...]]]></description>
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