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Essays, Poems, Short Stories, and Song Parodies

Assorted things I wrote, mostly in the late 1990s.

Essays

• Reading -- I probably should have been a lit major
• Hurricane Hugo -- looking back after 20 years

Poems

• The Raisin -- an Edgar Allan Poe parody
• Inspired by Mahler -- music as poetry
• The Pink -- making fun of bad coffeehouse poetry
• Geode -- inside
• Fates -- friendship
• Programmed -- college
• Paintbox -- colors
• Castle -- as in, sand castle
• Ascending/Descending -- Escher as poetry
• Continental Drift -- geology as poetry
• jabberwocky.py -- Python as poetry

Short Stories

• Not Without Light -- art and religion
• Crystallize -- a writing exercise
• The Tree -- another writing exercise

Song Parodies

• A Little Help -- the first of many Beatles parodies
• Joe Random -- college
• She Said -- ankh girls
• Fix My Mac -- this explains so much
• Hashed Array -- Perl
• Optimized Compiler -- C
• Lady Jocasta -- a parent != apparent