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Un-Bad, Son of Sin
May 1999 - October 1999
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   Looking back...four months for 100 poems, one very forced short story, and one equally forced twisted fairy tale....yeah, that just screams quality work.  
But hey, Joyce Carol Oates writes like 50 novels per week, so by comparison I guess it should've been possible.  But this is me we're talkin' about, and I had
just begun taking chances in writing, like limiting words and using imagination.  A good chunk of this volume was written while on a self-imposed vacation at
Walden Pond.  For a solid week I did nothing but hike, swim, and write (or try to).  Poems from this collection were later integrated into my first book.
   I once knew a stand-up comedian with a hunger for learning the origin of artistic inspiration.  While at an open mic one night, watching a very odd singer,
I wrote a couple phrases down and answered, in part, his cat-like craving with what turned out to be Tease.  The poem, Stardust & Mangos was
started as an experiment to see if I could write 1) in rhyme, 2) to tell a story, and 3) about love in a positive manner.  While living at Kean U., I didn't make
many friends, and it's shown by the writing of The First of Far too Many.  Another juxtaposition of truth and imagination is Loafing, which was
inspired by my introduction to my 4th roommate at Kean U.  Marketing for Children was conceived while rummaging around a Barnes & Noble;
finding a book that came with a small, disfigured plastic sheep; and thinking of nostalgia's effects on Gen X buying habbits.  Misanthropic Dyslexic
Cicada is a tale that just came to be cause I think it had to be...feeling a bit out of place myself at Kean U, I felt for this little guy (who I squished later)