What follows is a collection of the early poems and songs I wrote at age 15 to 16 , 1989-1991. This was a period of rapid growth for me, where I found myself choosing between what I had planned on for my life, and what I was realizing as what my life would be. I was quite secluded and spent most of my free time writing sequenced songs using my IBM 386 Turbo, and CakeWalk. I had a few synthesizers, one analog and one digital with sampler. In those days, pre-internet, we would share our cakewalk files using BBS’s. If I had kept it going, I can only wonder what I could have achieved at that early part of my life, but alas I lost all of the recording and sequences I made. The only thing left are these lyrics, which retain all of their original words.
The poems transcribed herein were salvaged from a binder of printed copies and the original 5 ½ inch disks, stored in the attic of my parent’s barn for 8 years, subjected to the -30 C winters and the un-insulated heat of summer. Somehow, these disks survived and I was able to talk my younger brother Tim into salvaging the contents. I printed the documents that day, 12 years ago and just recently used OCR to turn them into what you see here. It is purely amazing that out of everything I had done of my childhood, this is all that remains.
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