I was capable of writing decent poems back when I was in high school. There is one I would love to post, but I don’t have a copy of it anymore. But I do still remember this one—which may or may not have been published in the University of Washington’s student newspaper, The Daily (I no longer have the copy of that issue, so I don’t remember. I’ve had to guess at the line breaks, but I do recall I favored very short lines at that time…
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Writing
A bad-poetry flashback, c. 1980
To give you some idea of how far I have come, here are a couple of bad poems I contributed to my high school’s yearbook my senior year. The theme of that year’s book was ‘Records of the Past’—because no one had ever thought of that one before, right? Read at your peril…
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Dear Friday…
Dear Friday,
Rain? Nobody told me about this…
Love,
Kevin
(29 September 2017)
D(e)focus (a poem)
Bonus round…
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An accounting (a poem)
Happy National Poetry Day!
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Dear Thursday…
Dear Thursday,
When the day starts off with a trip to the grocery store to get that one ingredient you forgot to buy last night…
Love,
Kevin
(28 September 2017)
Don’t talk to me about love (a poem)
The new TV season has started, and already somebody said it—so…
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Dear Wednesday…
Dear Wednesday,
Early to bed, early to rise—because the cat is not subtle about demanding dinner at 2:30 in the morning…
Love,
Kevin
(27 September 2017)
V. O. (a poem)
When someone you follow turns out to have multiple social media accounts…
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Dear Tuesday…
Dear Tuesday,
Happy Olivia Newton-John’s birthday!
Love,
Kevin
(26 September 2017)