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Organization: CS Dept. Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.
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From: petersm@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Marguerite Petersen)
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Message-ID: 1992Apr22.021135.18335@cs.orst.edu
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Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
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Someone, (sorry I don't remember who) asked if anyone had written
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anything as a tribute to Isaac Asimov. I wrote this one the night
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I heard he had died. I think it's fitting as he was the reason
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I was inspired to write Shakespearean Sonnets as acrostics. This
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one's for Isaac!
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Somewhere around my fourteenth year or so
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Conveniently I cannot be precise
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I came upon a friend at school and though
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Exteriors diverse, we shared a vice.
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No one could have forseen the coming change
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Content were we to sit upon our duff
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Even then we knew that we were strange
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For girls to like to read that "awful stuff"
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I loved imagining huge ships in space
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Considered what strange worlds would be "out there"
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Toward the stars I soared while in that place
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Inside the magazines, "amazing", "weird".
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Of all the writers I'm enamored of
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No one can equal Isaac Asimov
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Marguerite K.A. Petersen
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In Memoriam to Isaac Asimov, Science Fiction Writer par
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excellence.
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Marg
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petersm@jacobs.cs.orst.edu
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a.k.a. Elvira
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