"Trenchcoat" at Strange Horizons

[teenybuffalo]

Wooo!

So guys I wrote this poem:

Trenchcoat

It just went live at Strange Horizons.

^_^

Thanks, everybody who encouraged me to work on this poem when I posted it here, particularly sovay and negothick, and thanks to asakiyume for recommending me just now.

I wrote this almost two years ago, when I was feeling alienated and wanted to find a way to be witty about it.  I'm tempted

Comments

[teenybuffalo]

Thanks! I'm still a bit boggled.

[nineweaving]

For a guy, long skirts and stone-cold manliness.
For a woman, broad shoulders,
A soldier's shape, hard angles, edge-sharp beauty.

Excellent.

Congratulations!

I can recommend the Belkin TuneTalk, now massively on sale. It's what I recorded the Midnight Belles with in negothick's kitchen. Amazingly decent sound for a tiny thing. The downside is that the integral mic faithfully records the intermittent click of the hard drive, so look into a little mic with a cord.

Nine

[teenybuffalo]

Thanks, both for reading and for taking the time to say so. I'm very happy.

I was very pleased with the sound quality of your microphone--wouldn't mind having one of the same quality. Thanks for the rec, I'll check it out.

[sovay]

I like that poem.

[teenybuffalo]

Thanks for the encouragement.

O hay--do you mind if I quote our e-mail conversation about velvet coats and absinthe, here on LJ?

[sovay]

O hay--do you mind if I quote our e-mail conversation about velvet coats and absinthe, here on LJ?

Nope.

[ladymondegreen]

I'm so glad this is seeing print. Congratulations on publishing an excellent poem.

[negothick]

Bravo! I look forward to being mentioned in future dissertations--I only hope to live long enough to see them written--analyzing this brilliant poetic voice, who has captured the essence of a few genres in a few lines.

[teenybuffalo]

You're giving me a warm fuzzy!

Thank you, N.E. Gothick.

I can see the dissertation now:

"...[Buffalo]'s contribution to postmodern noir literature constitutes the bulk of her tragically short career (2011-2012). After a manic episode during which she robbed a convenience store clerk armed with a scythe (she had the scythe, not the clerk), Buffalo spent the last forty years of her life in a mental institution, weaving baskets while convinced that she was Fanny Burney. Apart from some juvenilia, Buffalo's body of work consists of 'Trenchcoat', 'Aboveground', and some verses on a bad case of poison ivy."

[edited for clarity: I love the idea of featuring in someone's dissertation, I just had a vision of ways it could go wrong.]

[teenybuffalo]

Man oh man, thank you! You know what else is making me very happy--I've been writing pretty constantly this year, and enjoying it all, and this is due in large part to youse guys here on LJ encouraging me to write.

[mollyringle]

Oh cool! Congratulations! Awesome sharp and stylish imagery, too.

[teenybuffalo]

I am delighted that you liked it. Thank you for reading!