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		<title>Transient</title>
		<link>http://niksnexus.net/weblog/2012/05/transient/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 04:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soliloquy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sulleiman emerges from the bushes, a disoriented, quizzical look on his wizened, timeless visage. He brushes off bits of leaf and twig clinging to his brocade tunic and burgundy pantaloons, before picking himself up brightly to continue on his way. But a little girl called Lali, who is six, is standing there watching in open <a href='http://niksnexus.net/weblog/2012/05/transient/' class='excerpt-more'>[...continued]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Temple</title>
		<link>http://niksnexus.net/weblog/2011/10/the-temple-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 03:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[poims wot i wrote]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Inside this temple are mountains and rivers there are forests of oak, mountain lions and moss Seismic shifts and lightening bolts are inside enervating every silent thought All the dancing impulses of nature are here laughter, grief, hunger   swirling in the winds    and time There is ecstatic music, echoing through these chambers and starlight &#8211; <a href='http://niksnexus.net/weblog/2011/10/the-temple-2/' class='excerpt-more'>[...continued]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on Peru</title>
		<link>http://niksnexus.net/weblog/2011/10/reflections-on-peru/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo album at FB: Amazon to Andes &#8230; descending over the Amazonas, vistas of jungle, thatched roof, thin pillars of smoke, winding muddy river through low cotton cloud&#8230; we land, dismounting steel, into a welcome wave of humid heat, across hot tarmac, through tin pot airport, 3 wheel moto-taxi driver hustle and away, tearing like <a href='http://niksnexus.net/weblog/2011/10/reflections-on-peru/' class='excerpt-more'>[...continued]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Doing &#8220;frog&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://niksnexus.net/weblog/2011/09/doing-frog/</link>
		<comments>http://niksnexus.net/weblog/2011/09/doing-frog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[sublunaray ranting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No, not the kind of frog you might lick recreationally for it&#8217;s secretion of DMT (should you be so inclined.) That would be Bufo alvarius &#8211; the Colorado River toad. This is phyllomedusa bicolor, an Amazonian rainforest treefrog, And talk about right of passage &#8211; this shit took me down! Sapo, frog &#8220;medicine&#8221; &#8211; or <a href='http://niksnexus.net/weblog/2011/09/doing-frog/' class='excerpt-more'>[...continued]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Somewhere in the Amazon rain forest</title>
		<link>http://niksnexus.net/weblog/2011/08/somewhere-in-the-amazon-rain-forest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[letters from a fool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soliloquy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sublunaray ranting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After swallowing a shot glass full of the somewhat wretched medicinal brew, with some ceremonial reverence and a personal intention of what to work on for this ceremony, we sit upright in meditative postures, on mattress pads, in the darkness of the Maloka - a large circular palm thatched structure, open to the surrounding jungle <a href='http://niksnexus.net/weblog/2011/08/somewhere-in-the-amazon-rain-forest/' class='excerpt-more'>[...continued]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Quiet</title>
		<link>http://niksnexus.net/weblog/2011/04/keeping-quiet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 03:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. This one time upon the earth, let&#8217;s not speak any language, let&#8217;s stop for one second, and not move our arms so much. It would be a delicious moment, without hurry, without locomotives, all of us would be together in a sudden uneasiness. <a href='http://niksnexus.net/weblog/2011/04/keeping-quiet/' class='excerpt-more'>[...continued]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>radical short stories</title>
		<link>http://niksnexus.net/weblog/2011/04/great-short-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[8 out of 10 (New Yorker) short stories leave me cold as a fish in space. So whilst, like film, there is a degree of subjectivity, here&#8217;s a fistful,  captivating in their dark humour and edginess and for my money, rewarding in their poignancy, punch and pure celebration of life, love and madness: What you <a href='http://niksnexus.net/weblog/2011/04/great-short-stories/' class='excerpt-more'>[...continued]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Shapeshifters</title>
		<link>http://niksnexus.net/weblog/2011/04/shapeshifters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 02:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[sublunaray ranting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shapeshifters (v3.0) &#8211; a short story Something catches your eye starting out of the forest below.  A lone figure, it appears, coming towards you now, up the winding path towards the brow of the hill where you are standing, wolf hounds at your side.  Judging by the weathered gait, it appears to be a rather <a href='http://niksnexus.net/weblog/2011/04/shapeshifters/' class='excerpt-more'>[...continued]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>radioactive haiku 1,2,3 &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://niksnexus.net/weblog/2011/04/radioactive-haiku-123/</link>
		<comments>http://niksnexus.net/weblog/2011/04/radioactive-haiku-123/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[poims wot i wrote]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[#3 dusk in Fukushima wild plutonium horses ride jet-stream home #2 falling cherry blossom warm glow inside caesium sunset #1 eastern sun lonely shorelines glow for ten thousand years]]></description>
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		<title>mid east revolutions and err, democracy?</title>
		<link>http://niksnexus.net/weblog/2011/02/mid-east-revolutions-and-failed-democracy-at-home/</link>
		<comments>http://niksnexus.net/weblog/2011/02/mid-east-revolutions-and-failed-democracy-at-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[sublunaray ranting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gene Sharp, Author of the influential Nonviolent Revolution Rulebook (more here) suggests that as people develop techniques for withholding consent peacefully, regimes will crumble. This must be true whether dictatorship or western &#8220;democratic&#8221; oligarchies. So don&#8217;t vote, it only encourages the bastards &#8211; arguably a privileged notion but democracy is a failed system as there <a href='http://niksnexus.net/weblog/2011/02/mid-east-revolutions-and-failed-democracy-at-home/' class='excerpt-more'>[...continued]</a>]]></description>
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