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	<title>Tomás Gayton, Words on the move...</title>
	<link>http://www.sambajia.com</link>
	<description>Observations and expressions from one man's life...</description>
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		<title>EPITAPH TO MY BMW</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There you sit
in my garage
a graceful German machine
a classic gas guzzler
of iron  steel
and glass 
There you sit
a ruby relic of the road
waiting for me to turn the key
and roll down the road
littered with tons of flat tires
radiators batteries and wires  
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		<link>http://www.sambajia.com/2008/08/17/epitaph-to-my-bmw/</link>
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		<title>IN A WILDERNESS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[of wood wind water and ice
free from a concrete
plastic prison
of soiled air and water
killing king salmon
melting Arctic ice
habitat of perishing polar bears
In a wilderness of wood wind
and water I am alone
arms raised in awe
to grizzlies
caribou and wolves
who roam over mountains
glaciers and razor edged ridges
rising from rocky river beds
and silt layered flatlands
In a wilderness of wood [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sambajia.com/2008/07/13/in-a-wilderness/</link>
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		<title>Catacombas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a Lisboa Jazz bar around midnight on Rua da Rosa
I’m talking to Marcos the twenty something seminarian
soon to be Catholic priest who tells me about
his secret love affair with what he gleefully calls
“The Devil’s music”— and what the saints
on the walls of this small smoky club call THE BLUES:
In black and white photos over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sambajia.com/2008/06/23/catacombas/</link>
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		<title>Juvenile Justice?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Juvenile Justice is a caste system
where shackled and chained kids of color
replay the tearful trek
from plantation to prison—
America’s new slavery
Young lives languishing in cell blocks
where the light of day is lost
in a dungeon of desperation
and despair
America’s new slavery
Why are they there?
To protect society?
Do we dare defeat the evils of poverty
race privilege and war?
Destroy the prison-industrial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sambajia.com/2008/06/23/juvenile-justice/</link>
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		<title>BABYLON BY THE BAY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m strollin’ Babylon by the Bay
in North Beach when the storm
swamps the Bay Bridge
blowing down trees on Telegraph Ave.
Treasure Island is underwater and
Alcatraz is sinking in surf
The sign on the de Young museum
reads “closed due to inclement weather”
A streetcar is stuck on Nob Hill
the strip joints and bars
are nearly empty on Broadway
and lunch is canceled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sambajia.com/2008/03/29/babylon-by-the-bay/</link>
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