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		<title>Welcome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Website will be devoted to essays and insights related to diversity, addiction/recovery, psychological growth issues, global perspectives, the disenfranchised,  aesthetics, and cultural values. The core value streaming throughout the essays I write will be about returning to our innocence, which sometimes requires a trauma, a jolt, an invasion of the “other,” or a paradigm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magdalene (3)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In her sunrise bed She could Reinvent the Deft possibilities Of her birth, Searching for Friendly apertures Along a fluid canal To be exhaled Into the welcoming world. How shall she appear? Brief-case ready? Pedestrian-cautious? Starled as a stray cat? Or be what She would be&#8211; Her mother&#39;s Resented gift, The slow-faucet-drip Of&#160;nine months, Dawdling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magdalene</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Her memory, Like a maimed horse, Was put down, Itself, a faint recollection Of things forgotten, Misplaced, a frayed pocket Beyond repair. Tubes of frozen toothpaste In the freezer, Dusty combs Under the hot-water heater, A letter from a Teen-age boyfriend Under her mattress, A wristwatch On a windowsill, Catching the precision Of the sun&#39;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/uncategorized/magdalene-2/</link>
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		<title>Fear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I look out my window After the tornado&#8211; A bent tricycle, A refrigerator handle, A stained mattress, A Coca Cola can, A rusted sled, Slabs of cardboard, A stray cat. Like all the contents Of my fears, In disarray, Always something new To surrender.]]></description>
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		<title>Epiphany</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A woman on the train Told me she had found Jesus. He arrives, I am told, In the middle of things, Unfolding the silences Of our apathy. An excuse, really, For paying that attention Denied by relatives Too busy Handing out checks In tiny cards And ribboned presents On familiar birthdays.]]></description>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/poetry-2/epiphany/</link>
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		<title>Magdalene</title>
		<description><![CDATA[She was too frail To live by herself. Stairs eluded her; Stoves became Fireplaces; Shadows on the Bedroom wall, Fragments of Ancient lovers; Headlines, wind-swept Streamers, Pulled by blimps Across her kitchen table; Voice-mail messages, The whispering gossip Of foreign doctors In surgery.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Last Train Home&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Who doesn&#39;t want to see their kids prosperous?&#8221; says the mother of Qin and Yang in the documentary, Last Train Home. This is a refrain begun earlier by the grandmother: &#8220;But who doesn&#39;t want their children to live a good life?&#8221; If we are to believe the mother and the grandmother, prosperity and the good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/international-film/1169/</link>
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		<title>Multiculturalism in the United States</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the first part of this two-part essay on the anti-multiculturalism movement in Europe and United States, I attempted to carefully note that the backlash against multiculturalism was far more niched against specific groups&#8212;the Muslims in Europe and the UK and the Hispanics in the United States. I did not mean to suggest, however, that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/multiculturalism-in-the-united-states/</link>
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		<title>The Anti-Multiculturalism Movement&#8211;Part I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Blog Post is the first of a two-part article on anti-multiculturalism in Europe and the United States. It doesn&#39;t take a rocket scientist to know that multiculturalism is under severe attack throughout many Western countries, including the United States. UK&#39;s Prime Minister, David Cameron, gave an impassioned speech in Munich advocating what he called, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/the-anti-multiculturalism-movement-part-i/</link>
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		<title>The Tearless Stars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In all this vastness, We are the ones who weep, Salted fragments among Colliding stars where Nothing is missed, No god who cries For his lover&#39;s return, A memory of former days, When the angle Of the afternoon sun On your unbruised neck, Or the touch of Your damp hair Reminds me Of lounging books [...]]]></description>
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