Adam-Troy Castro

Writer of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Stories About Yams.

 

Ode To That Signed Book by Him Who Chose To Block Me

Posted on October 26th, 2015 by Adam-Troy Castro

O that novel on my shelf
by him who chose to block me,
Who signed it o’er to my self,
in belief that it would rock me,
who called me friend and colleague then,
in the hopes I’d write some praise,
with fine excerptable blurb,
that might his royalties raise.
But alas! Alack! That book
of Heinleinian flavor,
with ray gun blasts, I ne’er took
an afternoon to savor.
My author pal got online
with Hugo-baiting rancor
o’er books both poor and sublime,
with allies like a canker.
My friend whose best wishes lie
beneath his byline banner,
unpersoned old humble I
in well-worn Facebook manner.
Now that novel on my shelf
by he who has ejected
reminders of my base self
who politics rejected,
do I keep it there to read
or prize as a memento?
Do I pluck it like a weed
and sell it for my rento?
Do I say that madness reigns
in crusades so demented?
Do I satisfy with words
that hurt feelings were vented?
I don’t know, and yet that book
sits still in my library,
teasing me with every look,
idle, sad, contrary.
In my garden of friend’s works,
I cannot bear to weed it,
even as it cruelly lurks,
where I will never read it.

10 Responses to "Ode To That Signed Book by Him Who Chose To Block Me"

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  2. I’ve read the thread. Shrug.

  3. Does your wife know you are using her Tampons?

  4. This reply is being allowed to stand to demonstrate the quality of the wit being dealt with.

  5. The point of ire with this malcontent is line 19

    “unpersoned old humble I”

    Sheesh.

    ONE PERSON on the planet cuts off ONE particular channel of communication, and this tard claims that he was “unpersoned”

    He has no idea. He should talk to the relatives of the people whose images were LITERALLY cut out of historic photographs (leaving big empty white spaces) of early Russian Communist Party moments.

    “Unpersoned” indeed.

    What a blowhard.

  6. Boy, you don’t understand time at all, do you?

  7. You got to Vox Day. He is on his blog calling you nmmes.

    I call that a win.

  8. I am mildly and academically interested.

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