April 17, 1998, twenty years ago today, was a day like any other in State College, Pennsylvania. I was living in a bedsit flat in North Halls; and about to move into a sublet on South Atherton Street. Yet, it turned out to be a memorable day for me, as it was the day I wrote the first, almost-instantly complete draft of the poem Clean, which appeared in Philly print journal Siren's Silence (as is here shown) later that year. It signaled a leap forward for me and my writing, which culminated in the composition of Mortuary Puppies later that year, which was staged in State College in February '99 by the Outlaws.
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