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	<title>AUSTIN KLEON &#187; NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT POEMS</title>
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	<description>Austin Kleon is a writer and artist living in Austin, Texas.</description>
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		<title>SUMMER IS COOKING MY HEART</title>
		<link>http://www.austinkleon.com/2010/09/10/summer-is-cooking-my-heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austin Kleon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["summer is cooking my heart"]]></description>
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<p>In Texas, summer is winter. And you&#8217;re not <a href="http://www.austinkleon.com/2010/04/05/out-of-the-woods/">out of the woods</a> until October&#8230;
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		<title>CINDERELLA&#8217;S TROUBLE</title>
		<link>http://www.austinkleon.com/2010/09/08/cinderellas-trouble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austin Kleon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Cinderella's Trouble was that she sat waiting for some Fairy Godmother"]]></description>
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<p>Haven&#8217;t been able to make myself do any scanning this week (man, I&#8217;d kill for an intern), so an iPhone shot will have to do&#8230;</p>
<p>I made this last night, and then this morning I read <a href="http://twitter.com/TommyHowells/status/23901648059">a Tommy Howells tweet</a> along the same lines: </p>
<blockquote><p>What Hamlet needed was to get out of the castle. </p></blockquote>
<p><span id="more-9722"></span></p>
<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: Here&#8217;s a cleaned-up version:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.austinkleon.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/cinderellas-trouble.gif" alt="Cinderella's Trouble was that she sat waiting for some Fairy Godmother" />
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		<title>WHAT IS MARRIAGE?</title>
		<link>http://www.austinkleon.com/2010/08/31/what-is-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austin Kleon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["marriage is two people in love / standing in the same bathroom"]]></description>
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<p>I recommend dual sinks. </p>
<p>See also: &#8220;<a href="http://www.austinkleon.com/2009/12/30/what-happens-to-the-married/">What Happens to The Married</a>&#8221; &amp; &#8220;<a href="http://www.austinkleon.com/2009/08/02/home-depot/">Home Depot</a>&#8220;
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		<title>I STILL ROOT FOR THE TOWN</title>
		<link>http://www.austinkleon.com/2010/08/30/i-still-root-for-the-town/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austin Kleon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["I still root for the town / it got into my blood"]]></description>
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		<title>A VICTORY OF SORTS</title>
		<link>http://www.austinkleon.com/2010/08/27/a-victory-of-sorts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austin Kleon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["it is a victory of sorts / to take a drive in the country!"]]></description>
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<p>Meg and I took a 6-hour roadtrip down to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/deathtogutenberg/4916193216/">South Padre Island</a> last weekend. It&#8217;s amazing to me that taking a car trip can still be so romantic. The car as an intimate space. You&#8217;re not distracted by your normal routine&#8211;there&#8217;s nothing to do but talk to each other, listen to music, or look out the window. We stayed off of the big interstates for most of the trip, took 183 down to Corpus Christi through small Texas towns. I saw a huge row of wind turbines spinning on the horizon. Tractors running in the fields. Cones from Dairy Queen. Little traffic. No stress.</p>
<p>Yes, it felt like a victory of sorts.
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		<title>PIRATE&#8217;S BOOTY</title>
		<link>http://www.austinkleon.com/2010/08/26/pirates-booty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austin Kleon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["he saved the day / and then they were married / now the pirates / are after his organz"]]></description>
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<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: Here&#8217;s a cleaned-up version:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.austinkleon.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/they-were-married-pirates.gif" alt="he saved the day / and then they were married / now the pirates / are after his organz" /></p>
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		<title>GOOGLE ME</title>
		<link>http://www.austinkleon.com/2010/08/25/google-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austin Kleon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Go on Google me / ask Google how much u miss me"]]></description>
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		<title>THE SOPHIA LOREN OF OHIO</title>
		<link>http://www.austinkleon.com/2010/08/19/the-sophia-loren-of-ohio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austin Kleon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["she was the sophia loren of ohio / and she belonged to me"]]></description>
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<p>Check out this <a href="http://www.edrants.com/interview-whiteout-with-austin-kleon/">white-out interview with Ed Champion</a>.
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		<title>QUIET</title>
		<link>http://www.austinkleon.com/2010/08/17/quiet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austin Kleon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["a woman is living with me / she wanders around / quite as a whisper"]]></description>
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<p>True story.</p>
<p>Thanks to everybody who has bought a copy of <em><a href="http://www.austinkleon.com/newspaperblackout">Newspaper Blackout</a></em> and kept it on the <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/bestsellers.Contemporary.html">Poetry Foundation&#8217;s Best Seller list</a> for 16 weeks straight.
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		<title>RUNNING INTO WALLS</title>
		<link>http://www.austinkleon.com/2010/08/12/running-into-walls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austin Kleon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["i couldn't stop running into walls / and then / sitting there in the little hole / i went to work"]]></description>
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<p>I had a professor in college who told me, &#8220;the only reward you get from being an artist is that you get to make art.&#8221; </p>
<p>No matter what, <a href="http://www.austinkleon.com/2010/07/08/write-something-good/">it always comes back to the work</a>.
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