------------------------------------------------ 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