Frank Edward Nora Thinkfang THINKFANG by Frank Edward Nora The First Edition was published in 2003 and was called Duskaway Parking . This Second Edition is being published on August 12, 2009 and was renamed Thinkfang . Published by Frank Edward Nora New Jersey, USA onsug.com •
[email protected] Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ INTRODUCTION (FROM THE FIRST EDITION) Duskaway Parking is composed of 1,103 little numbered poems called “Superiors”. I wrote these over the course of 11 years, from late February 1992 to late February 2003. The Superiors originally appeared in my weekly ezine, “OsoaWeek”, which I published on my website. The Superiors began as poetry, but over time began to include other themes. Some of them are brief essays. Others are like diary entries. And some are like little science fiction stories. They are full of beauty and ugliness, focus and blur, just like life. The best of them still amaze me, and the worst make me cringe and shake my head. But all of them are here, in this book, in their original form. One aspect of Superior that has confused some people is all the made-up words and names and places. These are straight from my hyperactive creative mind, and in many instances I feel they convey ideas and images and atmospheres better than any real words. And keep in mind the science fiction aspect, with all sorts of mysterious characters, locales, and powers. And also keep in mind that there are references to real, but obscure, things as well, which does tend to muddle things a bit..