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In 1996, a college student named Jennifer decided
to put her entire life on the net. Thus started
the JenniCam,
and the world hasn't been the same since.
The Sonnets to JenniCam
are both a tribute to Jenni and a parody of Rilke's
"The Sonnets to Orpheus",
which I translated from the German.
There are 55 poems in the Rilke set, but I've only done
a dozen or so in the JenniCam series so far.
I was averaging about one a month for a while, but stopped
writing them for quite a while. Lately I've added a couple.
Each poem is illustrated with one image from the cam.
Some of these are "R-rated", and a few may be "X".
If you are likely to find this offensive, please either
turn off image loading in your browser or do not proceed.
On the other hand,
the images were all carefully selected to match the poems,
and the poems written to match the images, so without both
of them together you'll be missing quite a bit.
For some reason, many people find these poems upsetting.
Some of them seem to assume that because I wrote some poems
from the viewpoint of some person, that I must be
that person. The fallacious nature of this reasoning can perhaps
best be appreciated by noting that, if we accept it, then
we must also believe that the poet Rilke must have been
a panther because he wrote a poem about what it was like to
be one.
Anyway, although this series was originally intended to be
55 poems, I haven't written many lately and it looks like
I may not complete even the first half. Consider it an
experiment, perhaps one that failed.
I've also written other poems and some songs.
"wonderfully clever" - Kate O'Neill
"truly beautiful" - Andrew Wilson, Ring O'JenniFans administrator
If you're a fan of Jenni and don't feel that your view of her is represented here, please write me and tell me why you like her. I'll try to incorporate your viewpoint into a future sonnet.
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