Category Archives: Poetry

I’m not really into poetry as a reader, but I do quite enjoy the intellectual exercise of writing them. Any I write I’ll put up here. They will probably be satirical or at least vaguely humorous. This because I am afraid of displaying emotion. Ladies, take note!

My Feelings

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I have been asked how I feel about quitting a lot over the last few weeks. It’s the most common thing for people to say to me right after “Congratulations!”. It is difficult to answer – it’s complicated, as they say on Facebook. On the one hand I am glad to be free of an environment that I had become eager to leave and excited to be out in the world again, on the other I have given up an opportunity to continue to work on some fascinating and significant projects with some great people as well as any financial security I had.

But what better way to express such a complicated mélange of emotion than through a poem? And so I present:

My Feelings

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Tubercle Bacillus

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Recently my friend Melanie successfully defended her PhD thesis in London. It was to do with medical geography, specifically regarding Tuberculosis. In celebration, I wrote her this sonnet…

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