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Organization: CS Dept. Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. From: petersm@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Marguerite Petersen) Message-ID: 1992Apr22.021135.18335@cs.orst.edu Newsgroups: alt.music.filk

Someone, (sorry I don't remember who) asked if anyone had written anything as a tribute to Isaac Asimov. I wrote this one the night I heard he had died. I think it's fitting as he was the reason I was inspired to write Shakespearean Sonnets as acrostics. This one's for Isaac!

        Somewhere around my fourteenth year or so

        Conveniently I cannot be precise

        I came upon a friend at school and though

        Exteriors diverse, we shared a vice.

        No one could have forseen the coming change

        Content were we to sit upon our duff

        Even then we knew that we were strange
   
        For girls to like to read that "awful stuff"

        I loved imagining huge ships in space

        Considered what strange worlds would be "out there"

        Toward the stars I soared while in that place

        Inside the magazines, "amazing", "weird".

             Of all the writers I'm enamored of

             No one can equal Isaac Asimov

                            Marguerite K.A. Petersen

In Memoriam to Isaac Asimov, Science Fiction Writer par excellence.

Marg petersm@jacobs.cs.orst.edu a.k.a. Elvira