Poems, Short Stories, Essays, and Parodies

Poems:

• The Raisin -- an Edgar Allan Poe parody
• Inspired by Mahler -- morbid, twisted music
• The Pink -- my attempt to make fun of coffeehouse poetry
• Geode -- some nights nothing is what it seems
• Fates -- friendship is a funny thing
• Programmed -- too much Java
• Paintbox I -- I meant for there to be a sequel
• Castle -- I've spent a lot of time at beaches
• Ascending/Descending -- it's about Escher, really
• Continental Drift -- geology can be poetry
• jabberwocky.py -- convincing myself that Python is as cool as Perl

Short Stories:

• Not Without Light -- art museums can be religious experiences
• The Tree -- part of a writing exercise, I forget what
• Crystallize -- an application essay

Personal Essays:

• The Carnival -- a mostly autobiographical narrative
• Reading -- I probably should have been a lit major

Parody Songs:

• A Little Help -- the first of many Beatles parodies
• Joe Random -- Lucy without the drugs
• She Said -- everyone likes ankhs
• Fix My Mac -- this explains so much
• Hashed Array -- Perl goodness
• Optimized Compiler -- like an octopus's garden, only not