'Oblivion in Recession' first existed as a series of rough notes scrawled on a piece of scrap paper in January 1993, relating to incidents that had only very recently taken place. The piece was subject to some minor edits in late summer 2018, and I have no reason to doubt its veracity as it now stands. January 1993 (Image).
Lone Birthday Boy Dancing was almost certainly drafted as a makeshift journal entry on 8 October 1992, or perhaps a year earlier, before being very roughly versified many years later, even while its perhaps somewhat harrowing authenticity prevails.
