Yeah, well, it was 1984 wasn’t it… almost exactly 30 years ago.
With just days to go before the Bablake school magazine (entitled “Copyright” for some reason) closed for submissions, I asked the English teachers (specifically Mr Dave Prescott) whether anyone had done anything on the subject of Orwell’s classic. Apparently, they hadn’t. I therefore threw this together (plus a hastily scribbled picture which I wasn’t at all happy with, even back then, but they needed content).
I was informed that there had been some editorial debate on whether they ought to accept the poem due to the slightly racy nature of line 2. I bet that there haven’t been many other appearances of the word “orgasm” in a school publication.
Looking back on it now there are awful, cringing cliches that need removing and a general teenage brash awkwardness that makes me shudder. And the best line was stolen from an Alan (Watchmen, V for Vendetta et al) Moore comic. But hey, I was 16 and turned it around in a couple of hours (at most) and it’s not totally awful. And it’s got “orgasm” in it.
babbitman 
You know, for 16, it’s not terrible. Ha ha. I really like the last two lines and you did get “orgasm” in there, after all. 😀 What’s so interesting to me is that I can see “you” (the blog person that I know) in this even though it was written 33 years ago. The topic is a familiar one.
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Oh my good grief! You can see me in there? Lawks!
On the other hand, I still act like I’m 18 so that’s probably perfectly fine
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Funny how a poem written in 1984 derived from a book published in 1948 seems to be capturing the zeitgeist of the last year.
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I was going to comment on that. It’s so prophetic, it’s frightening.
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I think you are both way too hard on your past selves.
And, yes … I thought the same about the uncanny relevance to the present.
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Thanks, Eric! You’re very kind. Is this a subtle admission that you have some teenage poems of your own?
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