Thursday
With the poems I found on requiem's hard drive, I now have the astonishing number of 109 poems and songs I have written from 1996 to the present (although 89 of those were written in 1998). I've certainly still lost a number of other poems, but not on requiem's hard drive.
Having wc handy, I found that the single epic "Existence and Uniqueness" is twice as long as all the poems I wrote in 1998 put together. I'm not sure which is sadder.
I think one song there is pretty funny, though. Actually, it's really funny. Maybe I should do some more research and produce an updated version.
It is really interesting how many of those poems are parallel to things that happened later. In some cases, you could also call them prophetic. Recently I was writing about Aeneid II and the Fall of Troy; I thought that some of the aspects I mentioned were new (in that I hadn't written about them before, not that nobody had written about them before). But there they are, in my poems "Aeneas" and "Fuit Ilium" from 1998.
I posted a resume on Craig's List.
