Title:Â Apologia
Fandom:Â N/A
Characters:Â N/A
Rating: G-
Warnings:Â Angst
Notes:Â Ars(e) Poetica, #7. February 27, 1998. Someone knows who this was for. That's all that matters. I was sorry then, I'm sorry, now. (And now I'm even more sorry I couldn't write a decent bloody sonnet, all those years ago!)
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Title:Â Entreaty
Fandom:Â N/A
Characters:Â N/A
Rating: G-
Warnings:Â Self-sporking
Notes:Â Ars(e) Poetica, #6. February 27, 1998. It's a joke. A taunt. A not so gentle fork in the face, mostly directed at myself. This was when I decided I was going to publish a book of shitty sonnets, and stick this on the back cover.
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Title:Â Eden for a Letter
Fandom:Â N/A
Characters:Â N/A
Rating: G-
Warnings:Â So shallow, I don't even splash.
Notes:Â Ars(e) Poetica, #5. February 27, 1998. The Thespian president cut his hair, and I know I wasn't the only one horrified by it. However, it was for a part — it was for the art — so we couldn't hold it against him.
Eleven years later? Yeah, still that shallow. Even bald, I'd have done him, though, if he swung that way. Can't say no to beauty and talent.
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Title:Â He Runs With Scissors
Fandom:Â N/A
Characters:Â N/A
Rating: G-
Warnings:Â Applied religious themes
Notes:Â Ars(e) Poetica, #4. February 27, 1998. Runs-With-Scissors is a place up in the mountains that has a real name, but we've never asked what it is. The road on the way up leaves much to be desired.
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Title:Â Serapi
Fandom:Â N/A
Characters:Â N/A
Rating: G-
Warnings:Â Angst
Notes:Â Ars(e) Poetica, #3. February 26, 1998. I got nothing to say about this one. Seriously. Even now.
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Title:Â To Astrid
Fandom:Â N/A
Characters:Â N/A
Rating: G-
Warnings:Â Angst
Notes:Â Ars(e) Poetica, #2. February 26, 1998. There is no Astrid. This has entirely other meanings…
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Title:Petrarch on a Pike
Fandom:N/A
Characters:N/A
Rating:PG-13
Warnings:Bad early-modern English, unpleasant imagery
Notes:Ars(e) Poetica, #1. February 26, 1998. This one's for Verezzi…
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Title: The Flies
Rating: T
Warnings: Blasphemy, flies, death, angst
Notes: I dunno. It sounds a lot better than it looks. It's got lots of shouty bits. Found this one, undated, in Chrissie's handwriting, which gives me a little bit of a clue.
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Title: The (Other) Spam Song
Rating: G-
Warnings: Put down your coffee, first. No, really.
Notes: Okay, this was totally for the lulz. My mum's boyfriend was the leader of a Boy Scout troop, and they called themselves 'The Spam Brigade', and even got patches for it, from Hormel. No shit. So, they used to filk pop songs, on hikes, but inserting the word 'spam' in place of other things. This resulted in classics like 'Black Hole Spam', and other utterly tea-spittingly good stuff. So, one night, I wrote them their very own song about spam.
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Title: Crash and Burn
Rating: T
Warnings: Blasphemy, violence, surreal visions, pessimism
Notes: It's speed-punk. It's best done (as with so many things I did, back in the day) in a voice that sounds like mice on helium or an 80s pop singer in a tin-can. And apparently, it's also part of the 1995 set, and not the 1994 set, like I thought. I thought this was attributable to JesseDeer, but it's almost a whole year too late for that, so I haven't the faintest what I was thinking, here.
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