madmagic writing

poetry

• Woodcutting [Sep 1989]
  For my father.
• Prescription [1985]
• On Reading Yeats Again [1985]
• I Remember Him Only Slowly [Sep 1974]
  About my grandfather.
• four short poems
  late night net, for debbie, march is, frenchie
• Leningrad [1974]
• Lost Poems [Dec 1992]
• Randy's House [Fall 1993]
  Published May 1996 in Issue One of Here Lies, the io.Writing Quarterly.
• Between the Lines [Apr 1993]
  An eight-part lyrical celebration of writing online
  by Patrick Burton, Ian Firla, Gene Lee and Brian O'Reilly.
• Internet Hero [1996]
  A parody of John Lennon's Working Class Hero.

songs

• Highway 17 Blues [1985]
• Let It Be Forever [1987]
• Night Wind [Summer 1991]

  The following three songs and the monologue are from a so-far unfinished blues musical.

• City Lights (The Moth's Song) [1987]
• Moonlight In My Mind (Willie's Song) [1987]
• Mystery Walk (Spider's Song) [1987]
• Wolves (monologue) [1987]
• Welcome (finale) [1987]

fiction

• True Knowledge [Fall 1993]
  An 1100-word short story. This is not written from my personal experience or ambitions, in any sense.

non-fiction

• Boxing Day [Dec 1993]
  One of my very first Usenet news articles, posted in alt.angst on December 26, 1993. It was picked up and distributed by The Cult of the Dead Cow and is still #297 in their online archives -- two down from Tom Boutell and one up from Curtis Yarvin. I try to take all of this as a compliment.
• Amusing Idiots You Have In This Village [1994]
• My Roadsign [1995]
  Welcome to the end of the Information Highway.
• Imagine Your Kitchen Without Food [Oct 1990]
  Originally published in the Toronto Star.
• Crazy Quilt [1993]
  A book review of Upstairs in the Crazy House by Pat Capponi.
• goodnight, suzanne [1994]
• The Issue of Death [1994]
  A PARC Foolproof Editorial.

elsewhere

• madmagic@home
• the io.Writing project
• The Robert Graves Trust