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Sam Vaknin is the author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" and "After the Rain - How the West Lost the East". He is a columnist in "Central Europe Review", United Press International (UPI) and ebookweb.org and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory, Suite101 and searcheurope.com. Until recently, he served as the Economic Advisor to the Government of Macedonia. His web site: http://samvak.tripod.com		   


SAM VAKNIN
Selfdream

At times, I dream myself beseiged.
I rebel with the cunning of the weak.
I walk the shortcuts.
Tormentors clad
in blood-soaked black,
salute as I manipulate them
into realizing their abyss.
Some weep their sockets hollow,
or waive their thorns.
Much pain negotiated.
A trading of the wounds.
My chains carve metal
and I am branded.
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romance moves 'from objective to subjective world, from shared experience to experience savored alone' - E. Wilson

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Algerian poetry		   


PRASENJIT MAITI
Sunday at Church

Your lips like skies and your eyes like anger
as I return all my rivers to myself, my rivers saline
and sad and forlorn, your arms like castles and
their pits like wells of honey and dew
where I may swim and reflect awhile like myself
your smile like skies, your lips serene
your lips curled in silent rage, your smile frozen
like yesterday's salmon
that I chewed like vengeance
the mustard dropping slow
down my teeth like mercy, your smile like skies
your lips like skies, your lips serene, your lips divine
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