# Happy birthday, Gene Wolfe *The Usenet list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 07 May 2010* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Jerry Friedman *07 May 2010, 05:17* It's Gene Wolfe's 79th birthday, which seems like a good time to post a link to a poem I wrote that includes Wolfean themes. I add my best wishes for improved health for Mr. Wolfe. http://home.windstream.net/jerryfriedman/pilgrim1.html Candid but preferably not sarcastic comments are welcome. I'm posting this to a.u.e as well as rasfw because I asked some questions for the poem at a.u.e. ``` Jerry Friedman ``` --- ### CDB *07 May 2010, 15:51 · in reply to Jerry Friedman* > Jerry Friedman wrote: > > It's Gene Wolfe's 79th birthday, which seems like a good time to > post a link to a poem I wrote that includes Wolfean themes. I add > my best wishes for improved health for Mr. Wolfe. > > http://home.windstream.net/jerryfriedman/pilgrim1.html > > Candid but preferably not sarcastic comments are welcome. > > I'm posting this to a.u.e as well as rasfw because I asked some > questions for the poem at a.u.e. I think it works very well. It's a poem you have to spend some time with, and the notes are a big help, NTTAWWT. I have visited a couple of the poetry groups, and I think I understand why you haven't posted there. They seem to be dominated, and I do mean that, by a small number of posters. Do rasfwers regularly do poetrycrit? I ask because the poem doesn't strike me as primarily science-fictional -- but maybe I'm missing stuff; a word might be sufficient ("dur"), to start me looking further. Or maybe rereading TBOTNS. ---