Love in 1996 (Poem)
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A poem I wrote way back (not surprisingly) in 1996. I was exploring Internet Relay Chat back then, going into various chat rooms for all kinds of different subjects. I was using a female screen name and kept getting hit on my random people with male or non-gendered screen names. None of the groups were for hooking up/romance/whatever. I didn't find IRC interesting then or stay very long; this poem is an artifact from that time.
It was first published by the Porter Gulch Review.
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