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		<title>The Siwe Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the summer, I wrote about Siwe Monsanto, the amazing, beautiful, talented 15-year old daughter of my friend, Dionne. I wrote about what  a wonderful human being she was. I wrote about how funny she was. I wrote about what a wonderful mother Dionne was. I wrote about how sad Siwe was at times. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basseyworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8358738&amp;post=646&amp;subd=basseyworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Lost Ones.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pronounced "ahhh" like a sigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it seems that the going is just too rough And things go wrong no matter what I do Now and then it seems that life is just too much But you&#8217;ve got the love I need to see me through &#160; I&#8217;ve been a little down lately. And by lately, I mean about a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basseyworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8358738&amp;post=640&amp;subd=basseyworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free Write: On Ringing Phones and Persistent Good Byes</title>
		<link>http://basseyworld.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/free-write-of-ringing-phones-and-persistent-good-byes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pronounced "ahhh" like a sigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Immigrants know it too well&#8211; the way these phones ring at these ungodly hours. The way they jar you out of sleep. The first call can be ignored. It can be dismissed as a cousin wanting money or an uncle confused about the time difference only wanting to say hello. The second is an annoyance. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basseyworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8358738&amp;post=636&amp;subd=basseyworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Didn&#8217;t Turn Out Exactly How (my) Mom And Dad Wanted Me To Be</title>
		<link>http://basseyworld.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/didnt-turn-out-exactly-how-my-mom-and-dad-wanted-me-to-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pronounced "ahhh" like a sigh</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://basseyworld.wordpress.com/?p=621</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I call my blog &#8220;Tales of an Underachieving Overachiever&#8221;. It&#8217;s a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgement that the expectations I predicted or were predicted for me as a child have gone largely unfulfilled. Even in my young adult hood, I was carving my path and okay with what I was seeing but I also allowed fear to be more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basseyworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8358738&amp;post=621&amp;subd=basseyworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get Out of My Dreams&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://basseyworld.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/get-out-of-my-dreams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 02:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pronounced "ahhh" like a sigh</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://basseyworld.wordpress.com/?p=618</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pretty much certain everything I write for the next few days will have a Billy Ocean lyric as the title. You&#8217;re just going to have to deal with it. I&#8217;m sorry. I&#8217;m not sorry. I really liked that song when I was little. I think it was half in cartoon. It&#8217;s the same reason [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basseyworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8358738&amp;post=618&amp;subd=basseyworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When The Going Gets Tough</title>
		<link>http://basseyworld.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/when-the-going-gets-tough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pronounced "ahhh" like a sigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been listening to a lot of Billy Ocean the last few days. I don&#8217;t mean, I play his greatest hit CD on iTunes once a day. No. I mean, that continuously from the moment I wake up until the seconds I fall asleep, Billy Ocean is on a continuous loop. I&#8217;ve always been a fan of his. Since [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basseyworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8358738&amp;post=616&amp;subd=basseyworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Grit And The Grain of My Grandmother&#8217;s Gari</title>
		<link>http://basseyworld.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/the-grit-and-the-grain-of-my-grandmothers-gari/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pronounced "ahhh" like a sigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote about my grandmother, my mother&#8217;s mother, in the poem, Homeward. I spoke about the challenges we faced attempting to communicate. She spoke no English, barely even pidgin and I had lost my Yakuur tongue at the age of 4. Still, we spoke in love. My grandmother loved me like no other human being. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basseyworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8358738&amp;post=612&amp;subd=basseyworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free Write For Amy Winehouse.</title>
		<link>http://basseyworld.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/free-write/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pronounced "ahhh" like a sigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wasn&#8217;t happy with the poem I was writing for Amy before.  It was just pedantic and trite. It was being forced out and not coming how I wanted. I decided to do a free write. I&#8217;ve had this Zora Neale Hurston quote in my head for weeks and Amy on my heart for weeks. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basseyworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8358738&amp;post=602&amp;subd=basseyworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, B!  (Or 35 Things I need to Know and Remember)</title>
		<link>http://basseyworld.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/happy-birthday-b-or-35-things-i-need-to-know-and-remember/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 04:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pronounced "ahhh" like a sigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Bassey, Fuck fear, love anyway. Your heart is neither briar patch nor tumble weed. It is lush, tropical rain forest. Treat it accordingly. Listen to your head, trust your heart but let your gut break the tie. Release the myth of martyrdom. Joan of Arc didn’t set herself on fire. If they demand your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basseyworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8358738&amp;post=594&amp;subd=basseyworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free Write: Sucks To Be Me Right Now</title>
		<link>http://basseyworld.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/free-write-sucks-to-be-me-right-now/</link>
		<comments>http://basseyworld.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/free-write-sucks-to-be-me-right-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pronounced "ahhh" like a sigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t do tough love. I hate it. I don&#8217;t respond well to it. It just makes me feel worse and I either want to fight you or shut down completely. More often than not, I shut down completely. It&#8217;s my kryptonite. No. It&#8217;s my battery drain. Okay, let&#8217;s go back to kryptonite. The last [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basseyworld.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8358738&amp;post=577&amp;subd=basseyworld&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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