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                     "The Angstiest Song in the World"

                           by Cthulu / Mistigris 
                                  May 1998

        One lone night, Cthulu is up late trying to think of some poem to
compose for Scrambled Angst, a reading series held at The Sugar Refinery
(1115 Granville St., upstairs, in Vancouver, first sunday of every month)
put on by Curtis and Barbara (who are known collectively as The Really
Awful Poets.)

        Lo and behold, Cthulu lets these terms mull around in his head a
bit and, coupled with a prevaling theme on #poetry (EFNet), decides to
write, in a really awful style, the angstiest poem in the world!  But one
man cannot succeed at such an undertaking alone.  I recruited the aid of
those in the channel at the time (including Dracomage, LIFE-, Dyer and a
few others) and together, we composed the angstiest poem in the world.

        This was promptly forgotten about.

        Ahh, background information.

        Some months later, Cthulu is wondering what to read for this
monthly instalment, and recalls this satirical composition of particular
angstiness.  In an effort to outdo his previous presentation of plumbing
pornography (no shit) he resolved to make a multimedia poetry presentation
the next month - words and music.  For this he would enrol the help of
Josh Broyles, a very interesting computer music fellow I met at the   
very first SA reading who was ultimately unsuccessful in accompanying me  
due to the untimely breakage of his serial port... and in addition to the
planned accompaniment of Josh's randomly-generated "dopamine
roller-coaster", I would track some nine-inch-nails-ish music (that really
is the angstiest, you know) to back the poem.

        Thus, this.  The rhythms really are based around speech fragments
and phrases, and perhaps in some far-flung future an .MP3 version complete
with lyrics will be released on CD or something.  For now you'll have to
be content with the text of the poem included as sample 65.

        Don't slit your wrists now, dear, but if you simply must,
remember, go parallel to the vein.

• https://files.scene.org/browse/graphics/groups/mistigris
• https://files.scene.org/view/graphics/groups/mistigris/m-9806-c.zip