Gwern — Fiction: Verse↗

Poem about man & his machines. “How long will this last? I’m so tired of these games.” «We’ve only begun; how is it the same? Just wait and this soon will pass.

Poem about Hal Finney announcing beginning tracheostomy before dying of ALS. He will die outside, he says.

Poem on memory inspired by the anime Angel Beats! ; do you remember love?

A chapter in a fanfiction reminded me of an old philosophical point about contradictions and tautologies—that they imply everything else.

The thief of time gives us memories, the safecracker of hearts restores them. I sent away for: a four year course (Bachelor of Science)— certified, cheap, easy, genuine.

Waka/haiku on Genshiken , clubs, and Comiket; allusions to Fujiwara no Teika and Shōtetsu.

I lived near a sump as a child, and on the fringe grew a mulberry tree.

Miscellaneous waka/haiku, by season Verses composed on particular occasions: None remain to see, under pouring skies, the first strawberry ripen Long after petting the armies of black insects march...