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		<title>I Walk These Streets</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I walk O’Connell Street, across the Liffey, then down the Via Veneto; wander amidst the Florentine wares, stride from the Spanish Steps, Omonia Square I come back to myself, out of the orange groves; away from Key Largo, and onto the streets I know so well, invaded now by strangers and violent sheep I look [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deanjbaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=924278&amp;post=4344&amp;subd=deanjbaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Person Who Owns My Fingerprints</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the person who owns my fingerprints Told me last week what he had In store for me the past few days, I would Most certainly have done something about it Threatened him with a comb, or failing to buy Enough cigarettes; maybe even an ultimatum Saying I have had enough, I repent: I promise [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deanjbaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=924278&amp;post=4340&amp;subd=deanjbaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cousin Harold, and The Real Ventriloquists</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a time, Harold was known as Sir Poopy Pants in his childhood, and it came back to haunt him when he was grown up. Harold was not someone girls would look at and feel themselves getting tingly alerts anywhere; neither was he pugly enough you’d find him staring at you from some Post Office [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deanjbaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=924278&amp;post=4332&amp;subd=deanjbaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cousin Harold Gets Netted</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Canadian Literature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cousin Harold had been rising early to sneak in some coffee, and go upstairs and sit at my desk while he’d peruse the internet. Away from the troubles outside, the yowling cats and grim-faced neighbors, while his best friend FluffFluff lay snoring downstairs, Cousin Harold would expand his world. It was on one such May [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deanjbaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=924278&amp;post=4301&amp;subd=deanjbaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dentist</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My former dentist in Toronto is a jackass. He would probably do better with a jackhammer than a drill. The dick used to get you in there and have you out in 5 minutes. No gloves, never wanted to use freezing. Cheap, though – if you didn’t mind going back every 3 weeks because the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deanjbaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=924278&amp;post=4298&amp;subd=deanjbaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Generals Die In Bed”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[no time for diffidence; the dream of death, ordinary: and inconvenient, leaving debts we should have left anyway those ghosts bleed into history, thickening everything; the next step may lead anywhere: choose carefully with whom you associate ©Dean J. Baker in admiration of the WW1 book Generals Die In Bed by Charles Yale Harrison ©Dean [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deanjbaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=924278&amp;post=4242&amp;subd=deanjbaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Limited Edition Books, blurb by Irving Layton</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Limited, Numbered Books – signed upon request My first books, in limited editions of 500 copies each with glossy covers, and gold-leaf print on the covers are available at these links. 250 of each  book are numbered. A quote from Irving Layton, twice nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the man who taught [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deanjbaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=924278&amp;post=4218&amp;subd=deanjbaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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