http://slow.writerscafe.org/saigonkevin2014 The original writings of author Kevin Mulqueen en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1776019045 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 Elegy http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/saigonkevin2014/1604953/ I wrote this as a model for my students. Their task was to write about a peak experience within 100 words. I tried to be as concise and cogent as possible. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/saigonkevin2014/1390614/ I wrote this as a model for my students. Their task was to write about a peak experience within 100 words. I tried to be as concise and cogent as possible. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/saigonkevin2014/1390612/ I wrote this poem to help my students understand rhyming couplets and rhyme in general. They had to fill in the blanks. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/saigonkevin2014/1389811/ My friend and teaching colleague, Jon, was killed in the Bali night club bombing of 2002. 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His assistant told me which deodorant to buy. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/saigonkevin2014/1388897/ TANESCO is the electricity supplier in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Power cuts are ridiculously frequent. I was moved to write this blues after a power cut in 2000. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/saigonkevin2014/1388892/ When the most detestable administrator in school history resigned from my previous school, I wrote this about him. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/saigonkevin2014/1388888/ When my friend John Sparry - jazz and blues authority - was taken to hospital, I wrote this blues for him. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/saigonkevin2014/1388882/ A blues dedicated to the woman in Vietnam I was missing while in Ghana. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/saigonkevin2014/1388878/ I was moved to write this blues lampoon by the machinations of an administrator at my former school. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/saigonkevin2014/1388876/ I occasionally write poetry when I am angered or outraged by something or somebody. This blues poem was written about a terrible administrator at my former school. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/saigonkevin2014/1388873/