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    One Hundred Poems, Volume IV
    One Hundred Poems, Volume IV
    One Hundred Poems, Volume IV
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    One Hundred Poems, Volume IV

    By Tuomas Vainio

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    I set myself the goal of writing 1000 poems, about one per day, and this is my fourth volume towards that specific goal. This collection is by no means an autobiographical diary with any quantity of accuracy, but I cannot deny how these poems wouldn’t have a specific reason why it particularly was written on that very day.

    The topics I handle can be summed up as popular culture, events, politics, memes, and even controversial issues with controversial stance. Hence the poem tittles may seem spot on or even entirely misleading.

    Anyhow, this volume contains the following poems:
    'Festival of Dangerous Idea(logue)s'
    The Shepherd's Crown
    Yi-Fen Chou
    'Free Speech Fundamentalist'
    On That Third Party Troll

    Dammit honey
    The obscurity of self publishing
    That Skull of Mine
    Living in denial
    #PC Principal

    The Three Stories Before Me
    Beetroot Hamburger
    Baby Penguins
    Job Interviews: Awkward Flirtations of Denial
    A book that remains unfinished

    #ShoutYourAbortion?
    'S' On My Forehead (For a Superhero Novel?)
    Nigga Fried Chicken (NFC)
    “Cyber VAWG?”
    Kollektivet Music Video: 'Kygo's Confession'

    Feminists and Sex Robots
    Accusation: Rape Apologist
    Finland's 'Ruined' Reputation
    Trains and Snow
    Mustard

    Words Have Meaning
    Aftermath of a Shooting
    That No Man's Sky (For science fiction novel)
    The Amber Rose Slut Walk
    The First Day of Autumn

    The life as it is
    #NationalPoetryDay
    The perks of being an art teacher
    The Martian
    A Queen's Buttock (For a fantasy novel)

    Comment Sections
    My role in #GamerGate?
    Death of a Computer
    UN picks fight with gamers?
    Jar or Pickles

    The news of today
    A poem a day
    Battle of Ideas
    #CocksNotGlocks?
    The Canadian Prime Minister

    'Mean'
    Kiss of a Rose (For a fantasy novel)
    Trailer: Star Wars – The Force Awakens
    #SavePoint
    School Attack in Trollhättan

    No poem today
    Priorities
    Online Fish Bait
    An update on #SavePoint
    Lardship Troopers

    Hello (For A Science Fiction Novel)
    Paedophilia
    #SavePoint is back, sort of?
    #OpForgive
    When the word 'too' is too 'sexist'

    Jessica Jones – Purple Man
    Supergirl
    I do not feel like thinking
    And something slightly more joyous
    People Online

    “#GamerGate movie”
    Super Cheese Bacon Hamburger
    A poem in ten in minutes
    “69”
    Orcas in Plastic Bags

    Unbearable Honey
    Peach Flavoured Ice Tea
    Aftermath of Paris
    #SavePoint, A Full Circle
    Of boxes of chocolates and jars of jalapeños

    Fallout 4, an author's bane
    Sköll (For a Fantasy Novel)
    #IStandWithStarkey
    Where are you dogmeat?
    When snow and rain fall

    #Freedom of Tweets
    Feminists and Daleks, kindred spirits
    Yar-har
    Dead or Alive, a volleyball game
    Twenty-eight words

    At the 'end' of Fallout 4 (Spoilers, duh.)
    Just Dance
    Fallout 4 - Road Goggles
    She cannot ride a bicycle
    Realistic Fish Pencil Case

    Midnight Cleaning
    “On the right side of history”
    Twitter's Censorship
    Say it again
    Love of All Things

    Die Clara Die, on Doctor Who
    The Modern News of the Political Left
    December Rains
    That Malaysian Prime Minister
    And a fourth hundred

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTuomas Vainio
    Release dateDec 12, 2015
    ISBN9781310963131
    One Hundred Poems, Volume IV
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    Tuomas Vainio

    I write, I read, and the typos are still there. It is the crux of my life. Anyhow, my published works should not be overpriced and in some outlets you might be even able to set your own price!

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      One Hundred Poems, Volume IV - Tuomas Vainio

      'Festival of Dangerous Idea(logue)s'

      Penny for your thoughts,

      A podium to present your shots,

      And it seems inflation is simply true,

      If you pay attention to the inanity that flew,

      Just listen to the absence of simple historical facts,

      How our penny gave us ideological shit polished with wax.

      A festival of authoritarian cultism and little else to go around,

      The entire festival's creditability came tumbling down,

      As for how long they will ride Hitchens' corpse,

      Who knows: but let's change how it works,

      Every panel ought to have itself a pair,

      Have these ideas fight and flare.

      The Shepherd's Crown

      I have devoured books with physical weight,

      Tomes of programming and law on my plate,

      Yet this one book feels heavier than the rest,

      If you read the tittle: I think you've guessed,

      It is the last of its series and I dare not start,

      For there lies genuine fear in my very heart,

      Mixed with sorrow and furious grievance,

      Alone I stare at the book in empty silence,

      ...

      Maybe tomorrow…

      Yi-Fen Chou

      It seems that a pseudonym warrants blame,

      Or at least that is what some claim,

      For not being the poet's name,

      And so they long to shame,

      If not verbally maim,

      A poet that was not a dame,

      And what really seems to inflame,

      Is how his work resulted in some fame,

      Although he had to come up with a pen name.

      And I am not bothered:

      A pen name is the author's right,

      In case their own hinders their verbal might.

      'Free Speech Fundamentalist'

      Interesting thing I read today;

      An insult that carried some sway,

      But I am not sure if I am offended,

      It did not sound as harsh as intended,

      Because in my defence of free speech,

      I defend your right to falsely impeach,

      And as strange as it might seem to you,

      I have a right to hear the words you spew,

      Regardless of how offensive they might be,

      I need to hear them so I can agree or disagree.

      On That Third Party Troll

      On the magical world of the internet,

      There are individuals who are now upset,

      For they raised their wine with their baguette;

      They thought they could make some others sweat,

      When an universal troll was arrested for terrorist threat,

      Yet those who made accusations seemed to forget,

      The need for facts before making calls to beset,

      How their own history was not a null set,

      They even had this troll published!

      So a lesson to be learned is this:

      Just because you see someone smiling,

      It does not mean you know what they are thinking,

      And this third party troll: supported and opposed everything.

      Dammit honey

      Ramen hair?

      You dare?

      You err!

      The obscurity of self publishing

      You got front page for only mere minutes,

      And that is the nature of this business,

      Before whatever you worked on,

      Might just as well be gone,

      Hidden under the

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