To Be A Standard Shape Is Not

I Was Hardly Fit For Human Society. Thus Destiny Shaped Me To Be A Science Fiction Writer.

Most Sf Is About Madness, Or What Is Currently Ruled To Be Madness; This Is Part Of Its Attraction - It's Always Playing With How Much The Human Mind Can Encompass.

Most Of My Poetry Lies Beyond The Sf Field, Yet Here I Am Corralled Into 'sf Poetry' As Part Of This Poetry Weekend. Of Course, Some Might Say, 'you've Made Your Own Bed - Now You Must Lie In It!' But, While Fully Accepting That Dictum, I'm Not Yet Quite Prepared To Lie Down.

We Belong To An Age Where Apocalypse Is Our Daily Bread, Coffee's Black, And We Know We're Part Of The Abyss. Red Spider White Web Is Right On Target In Conveying That Understanding. It Splinters In The Mind... The Underworld Of The Century's Imaginings.

Obeying An Inalienable Law, Things Grew, Growing Riotous And Strange In Their Impulse For Growth.