Things I've Written

Poems

I usually get the urge to write one of these if I'm happy, sad or just pissed off. Most of these were written many years ago.

The Amazon
On a business trip to Montreal, I met a lovely woman named Denise. We had dinner and danced, and when I returned home, we kept in touch over the phone until I returned to Montreal a month or so later. I wrote Les Enfants de la Niege during this time.
After reading Felis Politicas you'll probably think that I hate the corporate world and every executive...and this is not true. Felis Politicas captures the essence of just one type of corporate character that we all have come to know and detest.
...and yet another kind of person that we run into in any business and wish we hadn't is portrayed in Diary of a Corporate Bootlicker! Thank heavens for all the sincere, good friends I have met in the business world and to hell with the few sycophants like this one I have encountered!
Collage
Our world was turned upside down when we heard of the big crash. But when a friend at work, Bob Jones, who I hadn't seen for a few months said hello and I didn't recognize him because of chemotherapy, these two things clashed together in my mind and I am reminded of the fate we all face, and was driven to write US427.
You'll definitely think I'm a sicko after reading The Great Society! But many years ago, I was in a very unhealthy relationship, and had a job that I hated. As depressing as this is, it won an award in a literary contest! (Taproot, 1980s Contest)
Selling is a part of all our lives. But some professional salespeople find that by portraying whatever reality a client wants to see, that they can make much more money. Then one begins to lose track of one's own reality when the automatic lying becomes intertwined with what one used to know as truth. Decline of a Father's Son is not about me totally - but rather a collage of my experience of professional sales and some of the salesmen I have encountered both as a customer and as a colleague.
The Maypole

Misc.

What if software developers were put in charge of human evolution? See what the 'release letter' just might look like for Human Body Release 4.0!!!
A long time ago at CMU in the days when I was writing in APL on a teletype with a paper tape punch attached, connected to an IBM 360 Model 67 with something called TSS, I thought about writing a program that would spit out random, yet pronounceable words. It actually worked, but upon graduation I left this silly code behind. I was going into the business world to become a salesman. I really wasn't too happy as a salesman, but I didn't really realize I wasn't cut out for the job until I found myself back in the HONE room (terminal room) rewriting this program at IBM. I seemed to be happiest designing software.
Somehow I lost this code again and rewrote it at Legent once again while 'doing time' under a few (...but not all) 'managers' who were either dishonest, self-serving bootlickers - or narcissistic, narrowminded dogmatists masquerading as managers (don't judge me too quickly, now - don't you know someone like this?!). Here is a sample of some random prounceable paragraphs that the latest version of this code produced. Look carefully, for you may find a name for a pet, perhaps for a product (be my guest!), or perhaps a new way to describe someone for whom you just haven't been able to find the right word.

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