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"The Terrible Fate of Kate's Novels" by me (talk.bizarre, 12 October 2005 ( Read more... )

Prepare to be spattered with a selection of my crap from the thrilling days of Usenet.

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Best chess opening names (talk.bizarre, 15 March 2007 ( Read more... )

Glorious Innana
Glorious Anat
Terrible chambers of my heart!

You drive me up
Easily as a cow driving away a fly -

Too high

I come down to find I've killed the tables and the chairs;
Instead of the enemy, I've overthrown my own house.

Terrible chambers of my heart,
Glorious Anat,
Glorious Inanna!

I'm trying to find an unfinished vampire!Adric fanfic I scrawled back in the eighties, but instead, I found this:

( What If... Timewyrm: Genesys had been written by e.e. cummings? )

1985 and 1986: shithole called Camberwell High. Development of personal symbols continues, with large infusion of pop culture. Writing poems for Eng Lit class. Full-blown adolescent angst, vegetarianism, ghastly crush on teh Hoff, mortality, lots of Emily Dickinson dashes.

( A Knight Rider poem, believe it or not - early 1986 )

In 1983 and 1984 I'm in a shithole called Weston Creek High School, and mostly writing clunky poems and songs about conformity. I snuck this one, anonymously, into the school journal:

( Sign Against, 30 September 1983 )

With Jon's help, I got the Zip drive working on the new PC. That means you will all soon face

THE HORROR THAT IS MY TEENAGE POETRY.

( My first ever poem. Not even a bit emo. )

It's nice to have your name remembered, I suppose,
But what you don't see is that I'm immortal too.
Kingdoms rise and fall,
But I'm still here:
A woman quietly washing a plate.
Where's Troy now?
Long eaten by my mother, the earth.

He's turning the horizon every colour in the box;
And then, it's their turn: Venus and Mars, the Virgin and the Bear,
And that mariner who's body's swelled as round and milky
As a well ripened cheese!

Jacaranda trees
Signal blazing through the noise
A violet svaha