Binary bits
Apr. 20th, 2021 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primeidealA while back I wrote this poem with math-y themes, and I was like, "I don't really want to share this online/under a pseudonym, this feels different enough that I might try to publish it somewhere," and then promptly...did nothing with it because where would I even go to publish a weird poem with "my feelings about math and culture are complicated." Anyway, I'm not exactly sure what "speculative" (SF/F) poetry is, but it occurs to me that this arguably qualifies, and hopefully no harm done in trying. So I might be sending it out to places.
Some of it is on the dark humor/un-progressive side which I suspect is not a point in its favor. But presages some of my more contemporary dark humor/un-progressive stuff, at least!
I'm not sure how obvious it is that I wrote it in one sitting. If I were to edit it, I'd probably tone down the aforementioned parts. But part of the significance (at least to me) is that I wrote it on an interesting (mathy) historical anniversary and I feel like editing it would take away from that. On the other hand, I feel like adding "btw, the significance is that I wrote this on a historic anniversary, get it??" would be an even bigger point against it. I don't know.
Some of it is on the dark humor/un-progressive side which I suspect is not a point in its favor. But presages some of my more contemporary dark humor/un-progressive stuff, at least!
I'm not sure how obvious it is that I wrote it in one sitting. If I were to edit it, I'd probably tone down the aforementioned parts. But part of the significance (at least to me) is that I wrote it on an interesting (mathy) historical anniversary and I feel like editing it would take away from that. On the other hand, I feel like adding "btw, the significance is that I wrote this on a historic anniversary, get it??" would be an even bigger point against it. I don't know.
