This is where I put various writings that I scrawl from time to time. Random stuff, really, just whatever came to mind that I thought was worth typing up.
| "Bad Days" | A darkly entertaining bus ride. |
| "The Last 'Hail Mary'" | Late summer memories. |
| Lyrics | |
| "Hanging Around" | Blues Lyrics |
| "Patience" | Children's Lyrics |
| "With the Wind" | A Poem |
Back in the early 90's, there sat a server in Palo Alto, California. On this server, ran an experimental, online environment, named LambdaMOO. Within the MOO was a library; in the library, a shelf; upon the shelf, a book: The Little MOO Book of Poetry. The entries reflected, as most literature does, the frames of mind of their authors and the times in which they lived. And while quality is subjective, some good work existed within their digital pages. After that book's byte quota was reached, I started another, the Book of Poetry, Verse, and Short Stories. I logged and printed a copy for myself in '95, and promptly misplaced it.
Flash forward ten years. The books (and the accounts of most of the books' contributors) have long since been recycled. The internet community has expanded to include most of the civilized world, and the MOO population has diminished to a few holdouts and the occasional visitor. I've kicked myself regularly (anytime I saw poetry, actually) for losing the irreplacable, until a few months ago, when I found my copy in the bottom of a box full of old papers. Here they are, presented in the numbered-line format of Lambda's "Book" object.
Copyright for the works contained in these two collections, are assumed to belong to the users (whomever they are), unless otherwise noted.
| The Little MOO Book of Poetry | The original: 75 entries. |
| The Little Book of Poetry, Verse, and Short Stories | The sequel: 22 entries |
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