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			<title><![CDATA[ Tell me the truth ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <em><font face="Georgia"><font size="3"><font color="#0000FF"><br></font></font></font></em><em><font face="Georgia"><font size="3"><font color="#0000FF">
</font></font></font></em><em><font face="Georgia"><font size="3"><font color="#0000FF"><br></font></font></font></em><em><font face="Georgia"><font size="3"><font color="#0000FF">Some say love&#39;s a little boy, </font></font></font></em><em><font face="Georgia"><font size="3"><font color="#0000FF"><br></font></font></font></em><em><font... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:39:34 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ A Dialog between me and my teacher Lynne ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ This dialog happened between me and my teacher Lynne as lovers,,<img src="http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/roll.gif">
<br>
<br>
Carackass:
<br>
<br>
Don&#39;t ask me
<br>
what I&#39;m in
<br>
go on your way and
<br>
don&#39;t look back
<br>
just ask god
<br>
to forgive our sin
<br>
and help you walking
<br>
along this crack
<br>
not one of us
<br>
can be mistaken
<br>
we should believe in
<br>
the rules of this life
<br>
<br>
Lynne :
<br>
<br>
Don&#39;t ask me for
<br>
what I lack... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:47:06 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Waiting for something ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <em><font face="Georgia"><font size="3"><font color="#0000FF">Renee and I sat</font></font></font></em><em><font face="Georgia"><font size="3"><font color="#0000FF"><br></font></font></font></em><em><font face="Georgia"><font size="3"><font color="#0000FF">on the bed
holding</font></font></font></em><em><font face="Georgia"><font size="3"><font color="#0000FF"><br></font></font></font></em><em><font face="Georgia"><font size="3"><font color="#0000FF">each other... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:54:57 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Of Mice and Men ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Dear Lynne,
<br>
<br>
Is the following statement correct:
<br>
<br>
An essay analyzing the influence of Steinbeck&#39;s life on his work &quot;Of Mice and Men&quot; and the reasons of how it became a great success ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:30:34 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ She did, but now she’s here, and I am not ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <font color="#0000FF"><font size="3"><font face="Georgia"><em>I am wiped out. They do not speak my name.
<br>
<br>
She has it all now-children, goods, the lot.
<br>
<br>
No contest; I am dead and have no claim.
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
She walks in-the surroundings are the same -
<br>
<br>
pours tea, snaps roses&#39; heads. And I shall rot.
<br>
<br>
I am wiped out and they don&#39;t speak my name.
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Routines go on; she drives my children home
<br>
<br>
from school and tucks the... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:02:40 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Don&#39;t feel with guilty ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Don&#39;t ask me for
<br>
what i&#39;m in
<br>
go on your way and
<br>
don&#39;t look back
<br>
just ask the god
<br>
to forgive our sin
<br>
and help you walking
<br>
upon this crack
<br>
no one from us
<br>
are mistaken
<br>
we should believe in
<br>
the rules of this life ]]></description>

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			<author>feeds@yuku.com (carackass)</author>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:24:05 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Rhymes ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The Washington Post has ever arranged a rhyme competition for the readers.
<br>
The rule was to write romantic rhymes where the first line should be as <u>romantic</u> as possible and the second line as <u>unromantic</u> as possible.
<br>
<br>
Here are the finalists of the competition:
<br>
 - My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife....
<br>
   marrying you has screwed up my life
<br>
<br>
 - I see your face when I am dreaming....
<br>
   that&#39;s why I always wake up screaming
<br>
<br>
 -... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:28:19 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Poem in German for Hermine ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ This is my model (a poem by Riemer):
<br>
<br>
<font size="4">artikel
<br>
<br>
maskulin
<br>
der schlips der whisky der kontoauszug
<br>
der schrebergarten der stammtisch der fußball
<br>
der unmensch der mitmensch der massenmensch
<br>
der käfer der kapitän der mercedes
<br>
der blutfleck der weißmacher der mannvonformat
<br>
der betrieb der bungalow der infarkt
<br>
<br>
feminin
<br>
die strumpfhose die waschmaschine die pille
<br>
die boutique die modenschau die bahnhofsmission
<br>
die... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:17:05 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Love and food ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ there her uncle kindly left her to cry in peace, conceiving, perhaps, that the deserted chair of each young man might exercise her tender enthusiasm, and
<span style="font-weight: bold;">that the remaining cold pork bones and mustard in William&#39;s plate might but divide her feelings with the broken egg-shells
in Mr. Crawford&#39;s.
<br>
<br>
<br>
<img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/roll.gif" alt="image"><img... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:06:35 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ A Mess of Feelings ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ with this silence
<br>
I feel with war inside me
<br>
with this feeling of tired
<br>
but I&#39;m not sleepy
<br>
with all this stars in the sky
<br>
but no one shine for me
<br>
I can&#39;t understand anything
<br>
Am i got crazy?
<br>
it&#39;s just a mess of feelings
<br>
when I miss you loli ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:43:29 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The right thing ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <font color="#0000FF"><font size="3"><font face="Georgia"><em>Elizabeth tries to hide her disappointment, 
<br>
<br>
she thinks I&#39;m throwing myself away 
<br>
<br>
by marrying this foolish, self-opinionated man. 
<br>
<br>
  
<br>
<br>
But looked at rationally 
<br>
<br>
what choice do I have? 
<br>
<br>
I am not pretty like her 
<br>
<br>
and without her wit. 
<br>
<br>
We have no money, I am twenty seven. 
<br>
<br>
Am I to stay at home, the daughter 
<br>
<br>
of a vain semi-gentleman,... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:10:04 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ That was fifty years ago ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <font color="#0000FF"><font size="3"><font face="Georgia"><em>Her passport describes her 
<br>
<br>
as five feet three 
<br>
<br>
but <strong>that was fifty years ago </strong>
<br>
<br>
when she was as slim 
<br>
<br>
as an iris 
<br>
<br>
with a river of red hair. 
<br>
<br>
 
<br>
<br>
Now the stem of her spine 
<br>
<br>
has shrunk, she barely 
<br>
<br>
measures four foot ten. 
<br>
<br>
Slack flesh hangs 
<br>
<br>
from her manicured hands 
<br>
<br>
Her lillied feet are bunioned 
<br>... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:19:44 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Things to do for Christmas ]]></title>
			<link>http://learnenglishonline.yuku.com/topic/8441/t/Things-to-do-for-Christmas.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ <font color="#0000FF"><font size="3"><font face="Georgia"><em>Let Gabriel tell Virgin Mary she is carrying 
<br>
<br>
child called Jesus - Son of God - 
<br>
<br>
say Joseph, her spouse, won&#39;t mind. 
<br>
<br>
Get Caesar to call people to Bethlehem. 
<br>
<br>
Order donkey. Polish star. 
<br>
<br>
Tell innkeeper to prepare stable for birth. 
<br>
<br>
Line manger with hay for baby. 
<br>
<br>
Dazzle shepherds, lead them to Jesus. 
<br>
<br>
Guide three wise men to Herod - 
<br>
<br>... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:14:40 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Tomorrow could be worse ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <font color="#0000FF"><font size="3"><font face="Georgia"><em>I make tea from the water that you boiled 
<br>
<br>
Before you left; use your special cup.
<br>
<br>
I choose this book because you read it last.
<br>
<br>
The fire I&#39;ve kept in for days: these flames
<br>
<br>
Are still the ones you saw. The milk jug? Stet,
<br>
<br>
Because you left it there. I fool myself
<br>
<br>
With charms, connections, that should make you real
<br>
<br>
But punch your absence into every act.
<br>... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:05:06 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Melting of The Mind ]]></title>
			<link>http://learnenglishonline.yuku.com/topic/8410/t/Melting-of-The-Mind.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ I lived my childhood
<br>
in a cryptic room
<br>
painted with
<br>
green and white
<br>
The life was humdrum
<br>
and the roof was cracked
<br>
my day was never end
<br>
and never start
<br>
<br>
Day by day
<br>
I&#39;m growing up
<br>
and the walls are
<br>
closing up
<br>
<br>
Through the holes of the roof
<br>
I&#39;m watching the sky
<br>
the day,
<br>
the night
<br>
and the bird when
<br>
it is fly
<br>
i should be there outside
<br>
to feel the sun
<br>
the wind
<br>
and touch the life... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:23:21 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ A dreadful language :O ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <font color="#0000FF"><font size="3"><font face="Georgia"><em>I take it you already know
<br>
Of <u>tough</u> and <u>bough</u> and <u>cough</u> and <u>dough</u>?
<br>
Others may stumble, but not you
<br>
On <u>hiccough</u>, <u>thorough</u>, <u>laugh</u> and <u>through</u>,
<br>
Well done, and now you wish perhaps
<br>
To learn of less familiar traps?
<br>
Beware of <u>heard</u>, a dreadful word
<br>
That looks like <u>beard</u> and sounds like <u>bird</u>.
<br>
And dead: t&#39;s said like... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:13:11 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Very hard indeed ]]></title>
			<link>http://learnenglishonline.yuku.com/topic/8376/t/Very-hard-indeed.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ <font color="#0000FF"><font size="3"><font face="Georgia"><em>Some words have different meanings,
<br>
and yet they&#39;re spelt the same.
<br>
A cricket is an insect,
<br>
to play it - it&#39;s a game.
<br>
<br>
On every hand, in every land,
<br>
it&#39;s thoroughly agreed,
<br>
the English language to explain
<br>
is <u>very hard indeed</u>.
<br>
<br>
Some people say that you&#39;re a dear,
<br>
yet dear is far from cheap.
<br>
A jumper is a thing you wear,
<br>
yet a jumper has to leap.... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:43:33 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ North and South ]]></title>
			<link>http://learnenglishonline.yuku.com/topic/8311/t/North-and-South.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ I thought that Marxists wouldn&#39;t approve Gaskell, at least not entirely. I was right. She was accused of being a fence-sitter :
<br>
<br>
<a target="_blank" href="http://books.google.pl/books?id=tqRmC6_u-HAC&amp;pg=PA42&amp;dq=gaskell+marxist&amp;ei=N7VXSqaIE4mSyASMypC1Bw">http://books.google.pl/bo...i=N7VXSqaIE4mSyASMypC1Bw</a>
<br>
<br>
Fortunately, today we have got to know people who don&#39;t know what communism is <img... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:49:06 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The promised land ]]></title>
			<link>http://learnenglishonline.yuku.com/topic/8270/t/The-promised-land.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ We have a novel about industrialisation too. I am afraid Reymont is not as optimistic as Gaskell. To say it explicitly, he is rather gloomy. Borowiecki
eventually breaks his engagement with Anka, a subtle and devoted fiancée and marries for money:
<br>
<br>
<a target="_blank" href="http://books.google.pl/books?id=Q5j_0WhwLZYC&amp;pg=PA134&amp;dq=borowiecki+anka&amp;lr=&amp;ei=9l5MSqnmKoy2yQSnnbTNDw">http://books.google.pl/bo...i=9l5MSqnmKoy2yQSnnbTNDw</a>
<br>
<br>
Here you have some... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:26:09 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ going home ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ i&#39;m on the plane
<br>
should i be happy or sad?
<br>
i have terrible feeling
<br>
with emptiness from the inside
<br>
my head is heavy
<br>
with this frozen mind
<br>
hey people wake me up
<br>
back me to the life
<br>
i&#39;m going home
<br>
but i left her behind
<br>
after we breakdown
<br>
she told me to hide
<br>
and u ms.loneliness please
<br>
stay away of her side
<br>
I hope she can understand
<br>
why i left her behind ]]></description>

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