Sci-Fi Nerd's Poem

by Mark Meredith

I wrote a poem in the middle of sleeping when I woke up in the middle of night. It was when Screamers '98 movie came out and I checked out the short story "'SECOND VARIETY" by Philip Dick. I was heavily into The Hobbit prelude. After I looked at it and said to myself, nobody's going to be so into Lord of the Rings that anybody will find value in the poem.

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Short Introduction to Rings, a Sci Fi Nerd's Poem!

by

Mark Walt Meredith

I wrote a poem in the middle of

sleeping when I woke up in the

middle of night. It was when

Screamers '98 movie came out and I checked out the short story

"'SECOND VARIETY" by Philip

Dick. I was heavily into The Hobbit

prelude. After I looked at it and said

to myself, nobody's going to be so

into Lord of the Rings that anybody will find value in the poem. What's going to make everybody like There and Back Again: enough that this poem will become well liked? Then The Lord of the Rings movies came. After the three came and went, I finally remembered and thought of that poem. I thought, "Oh yeah,

remember that dumb poem? No one

will ever like 'Lord of the Rings

enough to make that poem relevant!

Wait a minute: the movies are

making A Hobbit's Holiday hip

topic! Wait a second: the poem is

going to be a hot topic that is

relevant!"

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Rings; A Sci-Fi Nerd's Poem

by

Mark Meredith

I'm stranded on this plain

My mother has left me

At this outpost all alone

I'm hunted by the scream

Of the second variety

I have thrown the ring into the fire

I am a cross between, ring-wraith

and lord of the rings

Trapped in a cross between Beowulf

and Ragnarok

I have seen the runes

I'm haunted by made up monsters

The wide face, the flaming nostrils,

The slanted eyes of The Balrog.

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