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	<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Improvisation on an Earlobe</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/12/31/improvisation-on-an-earlobe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the useless appendages,
your earlobe is the loveliest.
I’ve never nibbled on your tonsils
and know nothing of appendices.
I whisper and it stirs
the white down that grows there.
Like the soft sand of Normandy,
it’s the beachhead of my advance.
I order my words, and off
they go, over the top,
to take the cochlea,
the stirrup and anvil!  With precision
and discipline, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful Losers</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/12/23/beautiful-losers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Terrors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Suburbia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Urology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You know how the song goes:  “When you’re in love with a beautiful woman, it’s hard….”  That’s how I’ve always felt with Suzanne.  I try to hide it, but there are times when my insecurities emerge low in my viscera and refuse to go away.  We’ll be at a dinner party and I’ll glance across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seventy-Two</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/12/16/seventy-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Terrors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Assholes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fundamentalists]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mohammed had been sitting outside on a rock for about a thousand years when Youssef pushed his way from the tent to join his brother.  For nearly a hundred years, Mohammed had been waiting on the rock while Youssef deflowered virgin number seventy-two, taking her every-which-way his imagination would allow.  In the sand at his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Desiccator</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/11/25/the-desiccator/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/11/25/the-desiccator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Terrors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Suburbia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Norm and I had been on vacation when Ed across the road from us took his spell or whatever it was he took that ended up killing him and left poor Thelma all alone in that big old house of hers.  So, on account of us being in Wichita Falls at the time, Norm and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Couch Surfing</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/11/25/couch-surfing/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/11/25/couch-surfing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Terrors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Assholes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rednecks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Suburbia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeinthemargins.com/?p=39</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’re gonna rat me out to my boss then you can just go fuck yourself.  And besides … there’s no way on god’s green earth I’ll ever tell you what I’m doin’ home on a weekday watchin’ the Maury show.  Oh ya, there’s Springer too.  And I’m praisin’ the lord god [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give Peace a Chance</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/11/10/give-peace-a-chance/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/11/10/give-peace-a-chance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Terrors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gambling]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mafia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeinthemargins.com/?p=38</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was the best of busts; it was the worst of busts, the day I took down Tony Sarducci.
There was once a time when we had such hopes for the man.  It was nearly ten years ago now that he made the announcement.  “I’m goin’ clean,” he said.  Even the papers picked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yeskia 9mm</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/11/04/yeskia-9mm/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/11/04/yeskia-9mm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Terrors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although the Swedes aren’t known as a warlike people, the marketing department had launched their latest campaign with military precision.  They softened the beachhead – in a manner of speaking – by deliberately leaking all kinds of rumours that exploded like mortar shells in the trenches of America.  The result was buzz.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Waste</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/10/24/public-waste/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/10/24/public-waste/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Terrors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Shit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Suburbia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeinthemargins.com/?p=35</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve lived in this neighbourhood for nearly ten years now.  Not alone, of course;  I have the requisite wife with her weekly manicure appointments, and the requisite dog with her poufy tail, and the requisite two point four children.  Two of the children are easy to find.  They each have a bedroom on either side [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everlasting Gobstoppers</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/10/14/everlasting-gobstoppers/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/10/14/everlasting-gobstoppers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Terrors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeinthemargins.com/?p=34</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Willy Wonka loves the Oompa-Loompas and they love him back.  You see, they’re funny looking:  they’re short and have orange skin, with rotten teeth and bad breath, and they sing the damnedest song.  The first time he ever saw them, Willy’s heart brimmed with compassion.  It was a sordid business, off-loading kegs from the local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack the Giant Killer</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/10/14/jack-the-giant-killer/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/10/14/jack-the-giant-killer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Terrors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fairy Tales]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeinthemargins.com/?p=33</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Doctor Horvath motioned for Jack to take a seat by the round, low coffee table while he settled himself in a swiveling chair in front of the bare desk, and then he turned to face Jack while resting his right elbow on the desk.  He tore a marked page from his pad (with the logo [...]]]></description>
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