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LiteraryMary will publish "found poem" and "Temblor" in its premiere issue in January 2009.

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Happy birthday, vylar_kaftan & dionysus1999!

(Also, happy belated birthday, rikhei! I hope you got my non-electronic birthday wishes in the last week.)

for my writerly friends

Final thoughts (found in choriamb)

It doesn't matter what you think about your work. This is one of the weirdest lessons a writer has to learn, that the emotions that push you to write better, with greater accuracy, truth, verve, wit; the despair that makes you cast your eyes to the ceiling and then plunge back to the keyboard; the running pleasure of one good word being followed by a better; the glee as you set a time bomb ticking in the text; the glorious megalomania with which you set out to describe and yes! conquer! the! world! ... are all completely redundant once the piece is finished.

The 4th Amendment is on the line.

Call your Senators first thing in the morning. They plan to pass the FISA bill.

Call all of them.