Agnes by Tony Cochran for April 29, 2020

There are days that feel just like that.

If she had access to a computer there are websites where she could post it.

Pretty impressive output.

I think my GM had Agnes’ poem. She lived in a rundown duplex. Her side of it had two living stories (plus a basement with a dirt floor that had some sort of a furnace—and no light). But there was also an attic floor that was stocked with Lord knows what. I used to explore that floor sometimes. This was in the 1950s and early 1960s. Found all sorts of stuff. Maybe the coolest was old Christmas cards from the 1930s, from people out in rural PA that I never heard of. The perfect place for a non-epic epic.

Looks like it may have potential as future t.p.

Wow! Look at all that paper! The “poem” is that long?! Trout may be right about no one ever reading it!

Maybe she’d be invited to read it in a simulated Vogon poetry contest…

Or at least get it published in a fanzine.

Yes, I agree with you, SusanS, that Agnes’s poem would no doubt give the Vogons poetry a run for their money.

I think Trout is out of line this time, to be a realist is one thing, but to pass judgment so quickly without even reading the poemBis another , She could even come across as being jealous if it wasn’t known any better, I side with Agnes this time.