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		<title>Lengua</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My dreams of a master&#8217;s degree in computer science has fallen to the roadside. In my position, it make more sense to get a PhD in English. I&#8217;ve done some very preliminary research. CUNY is probably my best bet, as it allows me to stay in NYC (with my already established work and social ties) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swan Lake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading my textbook&#8217;s chapter on diversity. It cited all of this research that shows stepping outside of your comfort zone and experiencing different and new ways of thinking can develop your own thinking. Ballet, in ways, is completely different from what I know. As a poet, I use words to convey meaning and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>haiku</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ra &#8211;diate love]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanchin.com/?p=548</link>
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		<title>[August night sky still]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August night sky still blue from city lights &#8211; promised meteors won&#8217;t come.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanchin.com/?p=543</link>
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		<title>For April 12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[for April 12 To be a housefly, to be hated and hit at, to be hatched instead of born, to be alive for a handful of hours but for everything (everything!) to be honest and new, I would trade this all.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanchin.com/?p=541</link>
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		<title>[heading North on 1A]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[heading North on 1A the guy 2 seats up is also staring out the window at the harbor of headstones. is he also thinking the same things, questions about his life and his mom and how trees are probably bad for caskets but they&#8217;re planted anyhow or else we&#8217;d be too overtaken with death? is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanchin.com/?p=536</link>
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		<title>The Thirties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Thirties The thirties I don’t exist yet Grass grows A girl eats strawberry ice cream Someone listens to Schumann (mad, ruined Schumann) I don’t exist yet How fortunate I can hear everything &#8211; Adam Zagajewski]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanchin.com/?p=531</link>
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		<title>another dream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember reading somewhere that a man out in the midwest bought an entire abandoned elementary school and converted it to a dojang. it&#8217;s brilliant, really. the idea was to create a sort of college, where you sleep and eat where you train. a school is designed to accommodate all of these &#8212; you would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Got Talent notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[so I&#8217;ve been running this through my head the last few days: I can do a straight breaking demo. 90 seconds of wood and concrete. there was a contestant this year who did that (if I recall) and who moved on to the next round. I don&#8217;t think I want to, at least not just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanchin.com/?p=526</link>
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		<title>memorable moment from this weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eugenia and I found a spot along the Charles to watch the fireworks. it was actually a piece of a dock that I used to sit on back in college. a storm had destroyed most of it and only the walkway was left. it was covered in filth so I ran and got a stack [...]]]></description>
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