Unfortunately I’m short on time at the moment (trying to launch a project this week) but I have to say, at least, a few words about the hacker and artist _why.
At this moment, _why’s online presence appears to be no more. All of his sites and code are gone. This includes, and is not limited to:
- http://twitter.com/_why
- http://github.com/why
- http://whytheluckystiff.net/
- http://poignantguide.net/
- http://hackety.org/
- http://shoooes.net/
- http://hacketyhack.net/
- http://tryruby.hobix.com/
Two conjectures are common at the moment: His account(s) were hacked and sites taken down or he simply decided to delete his online presence. I personally believe that he did this deliberately and with some amount of forethought.
One of the things that’s made _why unique amongst programmers is that he has worked in virtual anonymity. Some people knew his name but it was never a focus of his online persona (and, at least, never actively associated with him as a person – I’ve seen sites that purport to identify him, but they’re generally incorrect, and fringe, at best). Even live, giving talks or performing music, he still went by his pseudonym.
Reading through the original discovery thread you can see a full range of emotion regarding his disappearance; Anger, confusion, and sadness.
Personally, I feel a mixture of joy and amazement.
_why, the code he’s written, the persona he projected, and the art he produced has been a long-time admiration of mine. Some only see _why’s code or writing (Why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby, for example – which can still be purchased on Lulu).
I tend to see _why more as an artist. He used a wide variety of mediums for his exploration: Written word, drawings, code, and even music.
Not many know that he released an album to go along with Why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby. One of my favorite songs from the album is the one for the second chapter: This Book is Made (of Rabbits and Lemonade).
Nothing can capture the artistic ethos of _why better than the above song.
_why – even in his code – was eccentric, humorous, cute, and whimsical. He relished his ability to express his art and was extremely good at it, at the same time.
Underlying the layer of whimsy that permeated his work there was a more serious tone: expression, simplicity, and education. In all of his code, and writing, he was constantly trying to find ways to bring the art of hacking to more people – to younger people – to simplify the complexities that normally permeate development.
It’s never completely clear from his writing, but I like to imagine _why with children. Either as a grade school teacher or with his own children. Finding ways to communicate with them, teach them, and encouraging their imagination and freedom of expression.
Due to his expressive nature I feel like I understand _why, even though I only managed to chat with him once, for a couple minutes, on IRC. I can especially appreciate his anonymity.
In my life I constantly try to keep my work and personal life separate. What _why did with his online persona has been a great inspiration to me. He was successful in having virtually no bleed-over of his personal life (with his family and friends) into his online persona, and likely vice-versa.
People get way too caught up in their work. I like to think that he was able to keep the products of his online persona separate from the rest of his life, treating them as completely distinct entities – the perfect, clear-cut, division between personal life, work, and play.
Seeing the complete deletion of his online persona doesn’t terribly surprise me. Back in 2007 _why closed his main blog (RedHanded). That event truly shocked me, but it helped me to better understand him as a person. The blog, even though he had put years of work into it and people strongly identified him with it, was immaterial. It didn’t feel like the right place to talk anymore so he moved on to another place, abandoning the old site.
If there’s any analogy that I can make about _why, his online persona, and all the works that he’s produced over the years it’s to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of the sand mandala.
Sand mandalas are incredibly intricate works of art that take many people many days to construct. They’re very expressive, but fragile, works of art.
After a mandala has been constructed – and displayed – it is ceremoniously deconstructed – which is meant “to symbolize the Buddhist doctrinal belief in the transitory nature of material life.”
_why’s entire online presence and code was presented in the sand mandala that was ‘_why’. The person behind ‘_why’ simply decided to move on and close that portion of his life.
I’ve seen a few people ask why he opted to remove his code – why didn’t he take his work seriously? (Especially since others have grown to depend upon it.)
Looking at the cumulative work and art of _why it should become painfully obvious: The online presence of _why, and all the code, writing, music, and drawings that’ve been produced are a mere transitory portion of one person’s life. He was constantly moving from project to project, blog to blog. Now he’s truly moved on and we should feel joy in having gotten to know him, and his art, over the past couple years.
While this isn’t a eulogy for a living person – I fully expect that he’s happy and continuing to explore life with his friends and family – it’s a eulogy to one portion of one man’s life.
I wish I could better express what I feel for _why. Whenever I think of him I think of artistic expression, happiness, and the joy of exploration.
To _why: Thank you for bringing your code and art to us over the past couple years. It’s been greatly appreciated, more than you can know. Please continue to enjoy your life and bring your joy and whimsy to others all over the world.
Jeff Eaton (August 19, 2009 at 5:19 pm)
A fitting tribute to someone whose contributions — and the beauty and personality of those contributions — really inspired.
Greg Borenstein (August 19, 2009 at 5:23 pm)
Beautiful post, John. Sums it up completely. I just hope you are right about the distance between his online and personal lives. It’s hard not to imagine some suffering on the other end of such a move, but I’d like to believe your version.
Charlie (Colorado) (August 19, 2009 at 5:24 pm)
Sigh.
_why’s certainly entitled to do so.
I’m sure glad I never did anything that depended on shooes, though. I was about to.
Reinaldo (August 19, 2009 at 5:26 pm)
This is REALLY ART!
TJ Holowaychuk (August 19, 2009 at 5:27 pm)
If anything reading his Ruby guide just fucked me up more lol his code is extremely ugly, although some of it technical yes, but still ugly.
Joe Crawford (August 19, 2009 at 5:28 pm)
I suspect the artist formerly known as _why will return. Eulogy seems an odd word to use, but for now I’ll accept it.
I hope and think there will be more from _why. He remains an inspiration even if that persona never appears again.
Lovely piece Mr. Resig.
John Resig (August 19, 2009 at 5:49 pm)
@Greg Borenstein: I really hope so too. Even if the actual events are far more tragic, _why will always be, to me, what I describe here. He’s been a true inspiration to me.
@Charlie: The nice thing about open source is that the code will likely live on for a very long time. There is already a mirror set up for his Github repository. I fully expect that people will step up and handle the maintenance burden for some of the projects (which has already happened for, at least, a couple of them).
Larry CUmmings (August 19, 2009 at 5:58 pm)
Nice write up. I had no idea he had disappeared. I have always been impressed with _why. His ability to get deserved attention for his unique and interesting perspective.
Also I like his drawings.
Thanks for posting this.
Jenna 'Bluebie' Fox (August 19, 2009 at 6:02 pm)
I too had the pleasure of talking to _why on IRC one time, though for more than five minutes. We didn’t talk of anything serious, just whimsically created a world of fiction around us, then tore it down when we got bored with it. _why is just as fun and quirky live as in his more thought out mediums. It’s clear to me that it wasn’t a fictional character he created, but someone he could effortlessly become.
I’m really glad to have known _why. He did so many great things, from his music to his code. I think he’s a school teacher too, and suspect he simply had things that needed doing in real life. He’s always been passionate about kids, and so I would not be at all surprised if something has happened that is more important than the web. Perhaps today marks the first day of a little _why’s life.
I hope _why and all his family live happy, quirky lives. I know I appreciate all he gave, as I listen to the thirsty cups. Today we mourn the loss of the future _why, but we still have the past. We mourn the loss of potential, nothing more.
We’ll miss you, _why. Thanks for brightening up this gloomy place. :)
I somehow expect his eyes are still around here somewhere. Unlike most death, we can be quite sure that he sees and hears all we are creating right now. So thanks _why. I know I will try to continue your legacy, somehow. This is absolutely not an end, just a change. It is all our jobs now to finish what he started.
Thanks, _why.
Jon (August 19, 2009 at 6:04 pm)
The thing I find odd is that he a dramatic exit is a really bad way to maintain the separation between his personal and private life. The Streisand_effect:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
The huge amount of drama is drawing way more attention than he would have received otherwise.
Noah Sussman (August 19, 2009 at 6:07 pm)
Well said, John.
I’m glad most of _why’s writing is still in the internet archive, I learned to use the IRB from his Poignant Guide, and I still send the archived version to colleagues when I’m introducing them to Ruby.
As for those who relied on _why’s code but didn’t make a local backup, I have to wholeheartedly agree with Reinaldo: that’s art.
Josh Martin (August 19, 2009 at 6:16 pm)
The loss of _why in our community comes to us with mixed emotions – sadness, anger, envy, and confusion. Nobody but himself knows why he left, or where he went. We do know that his legacy will live on in to the future. You will always be with us _why. *chunky bacon*
Robby Russell (August 19, 2009 at 6:20 pm)
My theory is that @_why found a way into a parallel mousehole and you can only communicate with him via hoodwinkd.
Long live the mousehole. Viva la hoodwinkd!
Kent Brewster (August 19, 2009 at 6:26 pm)
Yes, exactly. And here’s hoping _why is off doing the Next Thing, whatever it is.
Vais (August 19, 2009 at 7:08 pm)
Thank you for a beautiful post, John,
_why has been an inspiration – I remember getting into Ruby back when redhanded was still active because I thought, wow this is the kind of crowd of people I want to be around.
He definitely was an artist first, and a software hacker second – I distinctly remember the events preceeding redhanded being “finished”, and a lot of it had to do with the increasing amounts of crap random people were giving him when he started putting his code snippets up as drawings that could not be copy-and-pasted – they just didn’t get it, so he left. Now it seems he’s left for good. What a shame. I’ll miss his work.
Rael Dornfest (August 19, 2009 at 7:46 pm)
John,
You put so eloquently into words what many of us have been trying all day to put into thought. Your post on the why of _why is a wonderful counterpart to the pervading where and who of _why.
Rael
Julien Desrosiers (August 19, 2009 at 8:07 pm)
Very nice post, John.
_Why inspired me a lot and he is a major reason why i’m a programmer now.
He is a true artist.
Thanks for this eulogy.
Dan Croak (August 19, 2009 at 8:22 pm)
Well said.
Christopher Groskopf (August 19, 2009 at 8:27 pm)
Hear hear!
I was never fully aware of _why’s broad reach, but reading now the backlash to his disappearance I can’t even count the number of times I organically touched on a project that he was connected to.
As a hacker, in the pantheon. Best wishes, _why.
Joao Pedrosa (August 19, 2009 at 8:46 pm)
Beautifully written.
I am a little surprised at the commotion this event has caused. Plus, I totally forgive _why for his/her decision. ;-)
This reminds us that we indeed are not our code and that it all can be kind of ephemeral and that we evolve with what we teach ourselves and could live without the existing stuff we have put out.
I have had my moments of closing things that I grew tired of, sort of like a game that we wish to play no longer.
I have no idea what triggered this decision from _why but I am just as happy for him/her. ;-)
Needless to say, while some folks thrive in getting personal, there are those of us that would rather keep it relatively impersonal.
quickredfox (August 19, 2009 at 8:47 pm)
Yeah, I agree. But thank god someone mirrored this. Being an artist myself, _why really taught me stuff because I could understand and to some extent relate to his eccentricity.
jdbartlett (August 19, 2009 at 9:57 pm)
beautifully put, john. _why was the art and the artist, and if the man behind them is moving on, a eulogy seems appropriate. :)
i never spoke with him, but i feel a little privileged to have been inspired by him while he was around–to be able to say, “i know shoes!”
http://everybody.knowsshoes.com
Charlie Bucket (August 19, 2009 at 11:03 pm)
_Why spoke at the Art && Code conference in Pittsburgh earlier this year and also taught some workshops. I only knew him from this event, but I came to the same conclusions as you did.
Enjoy the video:
http://www.vimeo.com/5047563
Micah Wittman (August 20, 2009 at 12:31 am)
This Book is Made finished playing (my first hearing) just about when I was done reading your very apt life-portion eulogy.
I just now recall a story my mother told me long ago of a final exam she had had in college which was comprised of only one question: Why?
I don’t remember any other details except that one student received an “A” having only answered: Because.
Dan Yoder (August 20, 2009 at 12:33 am)
Awesome post, John. Thank you for writing that. I’ve always believed hacking _is_ art, but often thought I was perhaps insane for thinking that, and for thinking “the art of programming” mattered. _why made me feel a LOT less insane because he lived that belief. I, too, hope he has just moved on to the next thing, as he always has.
@Jon: I think drawing attention to his exact was perhaps his exact intention. Or … that he was ambivalent to it, anyway, rather than trying to avoid it. The mandala analogy is perfect that way. It isn’t about whether it triggers a response in others. It is about the process itself.
Thank you, _why.
dust in the wind (August 20, 2009 at 1:09 am)
It is like we are all dust in the digital wind, stuck on this ship of _fools.
Sai Charan (August 20, 2009 at 1:55 am)
I really like the stance you have taken – appreciate his work and wishing him well. Refreshing change!
Olav Schettler (August 20, 2009 at 2:48 am)
John, a well written piece and a valid point of view: _why’s exit is truly worthy of an artist. However, it still gives me a stale taste that he has removed gifts he (or one of his virtual personas) has made to the public, even more so if others have come to depend on them. Why not pass his achievements to a public body if he want to move on? I strongly hope not more leaders of open source projects follow his example.
Elise Huard (August 20, 2009 at 2:56 am)
Darn, the web is a slightly sadder place without his contributions … I do hope he’ll reincarnate to delight us again with his loveable and surreal ideas.
In the meantime, the least we could do is give the man his privacy.
Thomas R. Koll (August 20, 2009 at 6:04 am)
Thanks John for poiting to the song from the soundtrack, but don’t forget to download the complete thing:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070703051421/poignantguide.net/sdtrk/
papyromancer (August 20, 2009 at 6:36 am)
“While the University has no proper faculty and no commons area, wherein one can find much lunching and reflection, it does have quite an astounding library whose book return automatically usurps portions of the films you are borrowing and delivers them to students standing in the queue. They (or some representation of Them) may stand there for hours and days in waiting, but that is how we discover persistence and how we come to radiate such constant composure.”
-why was a great professor.
Gerard Byrne (August 20, 2009 at 7:20 am)
_why provided me with my (entertaining) introduction to Ruby and I have had the pleasure of seeing him in action at RailsConf. Listening to a _why playlist on my iPhone today. Much love and best wishes to _why.
– Why Don’t We Get Drunk (Jimmy Buffet)
– Why Are You Picking On Me (Willie Nelson)
– Why Don’t We Do It In The Road (The Beatles – White Album)
– Tell me Why (Neil Young – After the Goldrush)
– Why Me (Shawn Camp/Kris Kristofferson – The Pilgrim)
Fruity Pebbles (August 20, 2009 at 7:31 am)
Never I loved a fox so much.
Kevin Fairchild (August 20, 2009 at 7:58 am)
Live In Peace, _why :)
Bob Aman (August 20, 2009 at 7:59 am)
_why is dead, long live _why!
Julian Burgess (August 20, 2009 at 8:27 am)
Lovely post John, I liked the analogy to the sand mandala, _why has reminded that in time all things come to pass
Doug Tangren (August 20, 2009 at 8:45 am)
part of me thought I would go to sleep last night and when I woke, he’d be back again. like a dream.
taelor (August 20, 2009 at 8:50 am)
For those of you that like the Facebook, a group has already popped up. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=125833150094
Also, I just purchased a paperback copy of the poignant guide on lulu, he does get a cut out of that right? If so, everyone that has been influenced by this man, please go buy this and THANK him in a thankless world…
Matt (August 20, 2009 at 11:01 am)
John,
I love the allusion of _why’s work to sand mandalas. Its a powerful image that extends well beyond _why’s work. All digital media production lives in a delicate balance. All of our code, our words, our images that only exist in the digital realm could vanish with a simple ‘rm -rf’ or the harsh breeze of electromagnetic waves (like the wind). Whatever we craft online, we ought to have the same attention & care of monks pouring sand.
Joe Grossberg (August 20, 2009 at 1:19 pm)
Doug T. +1
John R. +1_000_000
Sigh.
I hope this is a vacation and not a one-way trip. The creativity and joy he brought to a field that can be tedious and stressful was a real blessing.
Whatever he does next, I wish him the best.
Raymond Brigleb (August 20, 2009 at 2:17 pm)
Great, couldn’t have said that better myself.
Richard Brown (August 20, 2009 at 3:36 pm)
Sigh, the Internet is too big; I never heard of this guy until today. So I have no way of relating to this story. I feel like the guy who got to the party AFTER the police have left. No point of reference. :(
Anyway, I have to admire someone willing to pull up stakes as completely as he has.
Jon (August 20, 2009 at 3:50 pm)
Does he get a cut of that? Can anyone confirm? I’ll like to buy some lulu copies too if that’s the case.
_not_why (August 20, 2009 at 4:06 pm)
I knew him by his real name before I knew he was _why, what a great guy. He was always thinking ahead of his time. He is crazy enough to want to watch his own online funeral, or at least crazy enough to want to “run down the street covered in blood just to see how people react”. Even though I knew him, I have no idea why he disappeared, but his code will live on and more important I hope his attitude of teaching and helping others will spread. It is always fun to see people try to guess who he was, where he was from, etc. He still has us all guessing.
Anthon (August 20, 2009 at 4:25 pm)
Another conjecture is that copyright issues were raised.
The attempt to “out” _why may have had the effect of alerting _why’s [former?] employer of possible use of company resources to contribute to the Ruby community. Thus, it may be the case that the company asserted a claim to _why’s work as a company work product.
Jack (August 20, 2009 at 7:25 pm)
I think it is the thankless world part we need to fix. Software is more about lawyers and licenses and revenues than anything else these days. We live in a country that is afraid to take care of our own citizens.
These things you’ve written are very thoughtful, but the lesson, at least for me, is: Thank, Celebrate, and Appreciate early and often – before the moment passes – because these moments will never come again.
I am also a “lucky stiff” and I know from experience that luck will only get you so far. We have some real ugly problems IRL and we need to correct these policies before more and more friends start disappearing.
directeur (August 20, 2009 at 9:04 pm)
Really a great write up John, I loved the *artist*. Thank you, Sir!
Tom Dyer (August 20, 2009 at 9:29 pm)
Very nice John.
To me, the dream that is _why has been a gift. Drifting about under pools of code, at the back of group laughs at geek meets, between friends trying to make curly braces matter.
ara.t.howard (August 20, 2009 at 9:34 pm)
john – thanks so much for summing this up. it says at much about you as it does about _why. R.I.P.
ux (August 21, 2009 at 12:43 am)
i only ever wondered about his age. what age is he, i wonder?
orta (August 21, 2009 at 2:39 am)
Looks like he popped into the TextMate IRC channel last night.
04:24] _why joined the chat room.
[04:26] chendo_ joined the chat room.
[04:28] _why left the chat room. (Client Quit)
Justin Goltermann (August 21, 2009 at 5:34 am)
_why’s poignant guide is the best-written book on programming or Ruby I’ve ever read, and I’m grateful for every word, every example, every fox and every sidebar. Reading the guide was like discovering the secrets of the universe and laughing in surprise and delight at its perfection. _why, thanks for the laughter and illumination! May you keep it real interesting wherever you are.
And thank you John for the proper send-off of such a luminary.
dtjm (August 21, 2009 at 12:59 pm)
Why the Lucky Stiff whimsically taught me the basics Ruby. “Try Ruby”, the browser-based Ruby tutorial was superbly designed. And Why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby was genius and very educational.
Devyn (August 22, 2009 at 1:40 am)
I have a feeling he will be back. This may just be a test, you know. Or he’s been hacked.
mehmoomoo (August 22, 2009 at 4:29 am)
Why, if you are reading this and you quit over frustration caused by the threadmill of software: I work in a company that has 25% of employees COBOL developers. Truly, once you create something that works it will get used if it is good. Your stuff was the best.
Especially Shoes, it was a refreshing new way to build GUIs. I do not understand why some idiots wanted to do things like “tk/gtk/qt bindings” on a such nice language. Ruby deserved Shoes to become THE GUI building toolkit.
Screw the mainstream.
Philippe Monnet (August 22, 2009 at 7:52 am)
John, thank you for this well-written post. I felt a lot of emotions reading this. I have been amazed in the last couple years with the intense level of artistry _why shared with everyone.
I absolutely love the Camping framework and I truly found the Poignant Guide a true “gem”!!!
The “sand madalas” analogy is amazing – I did not know much about that until today.
I thank _why from the bottom of my heart for all his work and wish him the best.
PS-I agree we need to show our support by buying “the guide” on Lulu
Sophrinix (August 22, 2009 at 9:37 pm)
Try Ruby lives on!
It’s over at my github account being rebuilt.
It will be hosted on my site in the upcoming days.
Watch for it!
Jenna 'Bluebie' Fox (August 23, 2009 at 5:51 am)
If anyone’s buying physical books with the idea that _why will get the money, please, don’t. There is simply no way you’ll be able to pay a wage to return to something he seems to have lost interest in, through book sales alone. I’ve had the odd experience myself of my donationware finally getting a decent stream of donations after abandoning those projects totally and that sure didn’t motivate me to return, only reinforced how thoughtless people had been when I did try, and gave me the impression that the way to make money was to get people to depend on something then abandon it.
If 500 people buy prints of his books, and he gets, say, five bucks from each, that’s only a couple weeks wage at best. Consider he’s been working on this stuff for eight years now, and clearly has never been motivated by money before.
If I know anything about _why, I know he’d want us to show our appreciation by building on what he created, turning it in to everything he never had enough time to build, but always wanted to. If you love _why, the best way to show it is to make his dreams come true. Lets all finally make it our goals too, to bring programming to children, make it fun and quirky and adventurous, to shun those who demand ‘standards’ and ‘cleanlyness’ and especially ‘design principals’. :)
The same applies to his music too, I’m sure that’s why it’s licensed as creative commons.
Lets finish the poignant guide! Make hackety hack all it should be, polish shoes to perfection, make crazy music in bloopsaphone, give up on hpricot because nokogiri is better, and most importantly, carry on the spirit. The soul of loving as an artform. As an expression. When _why blogged code, it was art. It was rebellious and powerful and insightful and amazing. Like the rock songs that tried to change the world before him, he changed the world for us too. I think the thing we fear the most is not that his projects would die, because they will not. We’re not scared of logistics or dependancies. We’re all scared that ruby will loose it’s personality. We’re scared of the loss of the performance of it all, the artfulness, and the rebellion. Or at least, that is what I am scared of. It’s my most sincere hope that you will all join me in continuing the artfulness.
And by art, I certainly do not mean indenting your code to perfection. That is the epitome of conformity, where art’s very definition is in it’s rebellious and awe inspiring nature.
_why (August 25, 2009 at 9:15 pm)
Ok, ok i’m back. It was my attempt at humor…a mass rick-roll w/o the rick-roll.
Just kidding, this isn’t _why. However, I have recently started getting into more and more development and heard him mentioned numerous times. Sad to see him go from the sentiments shared here
-Cory
Pancho (August 26, 2009 at 12:44 am)
I’m so sad he’s gone. Shoes won’t be the same without him.
shadowbq (August 27, 2009 at 9:07 am)
thanks = thank.person(“_why”)
thanks.append(“~chunky bacon”)
see-el-free-i (August 27, 2009 at 8:42 pm)
Straight up, no chaser:
_why: I love you. I lost my love of programming back in the early 90’s, beaten down and just too saddened by the cookie-cutter corpocracy cultures that demeaned coffee lovers everwhere on planet3. No more coding to pay the bills so I could play the music I want to play– years spent painting houses and jamming out instead. Cut to 2006–
Had a 12 year old friend who wanted to learn programming. Read ‘Why Johnny can’t Code’. Cried while I got my Apple II+ serial #0000333 out of the closet. Searched the web. Found hackety-hack, ruby, divine madness in your hands–
Woke up laughing. Coding for a living, teaching kids and anyone else who wants to learn how to hack. Jamming the good tunes coming through, creative flux monumental.
You never know what will happen when you let loose and show your soul with all its quirky zigzags all naked and shiny like that. You never know the good you do, really. One kind word you don’t remember might just have saved a life. One time you almost gave some asshole in traffic the finger, but laughed instead. Butterflies flapping chaos into mountains of future chunky bacon coated goodness, shining down from skies of azure into keyboards of the future, hacking freedom from the fingers of the grey-faced humorless robots, laughing all the way to new life, new dreams, new futures of inconceivably absurd wonderfulness.
Ya changed my life, why, and the life of the kids in my life who are hacking away at their futures while I type. Ya changed the life of the Ethiopian immigrant checkout guy in the scary dangerous convenience store on my corner, who is learning to hack too, all ‘cos he asked what I do for a living, and I told him how I learned how to code again after almost 20 years off for bad behavior…
You are so, so loved. Disappear or reappear when you choose, it’s all up to you. It’s a free will universe, all the way, all the time, and I know you know that.
Just know this: you made a real difference in my life, and it’s made a real difference in other lives, and the ripples ain’t done spreading yet.
see-el-free-i,
ever your faithful admirer
over’n’out
RubyPanther (August 28, 2009 at 3:35 am)
perfect way to teach
crying in Dwemthy’s Array
warm rubies all night
emptyness and drought
dreaming of chunky bacon
falling to darkness
Thomas Russell (August 28, 2009 at 5:08 pm)
Although I touched the surface of _why, the parts I did touch had a great effect. oh good.
LX (August 31, 2009 at 10:56 am)
He left us in deep thought about _why he left. So his ultimate success is to get us thoughtful.
That’s really Art (with a capital “A”)!
Greetings, LX