Attempts at poetry: 1980 - 1984 The Victims is a piece of doggerel I used to recite to the nouveau beats at The Troubadour Coffee House in Earls' Court, London around 1981. It was subsequently published in an anthology. Miriam Beadle is the first piece of my verse ever published by an American literary journal. Blue Rhapsody is a piece of verse that was published in an anthology long after I gave up all pretensions to being a poet.