Tom's story: 2017
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2017 — Tom was 38 and 39
8 pieces on this year: 5 dated to this year · 1 from a range of years, shown here in the middle · 2 made this year or later.
DATED TO 2017
951Co-worker Theory of Psychology
2017 (age 38 or 39) PROVED
ESSAYS AND OTHER WRITINGS (NOT LYRICS)
Tom's own printed essay THE CO-WORKER THEORY OF PSYCHOLOGY (2017), about workplace personalities and creativity, laser-printed pages from a small stapled booklet together with a printout of his hand-drawn Co-worker Theory chart.
the card says: printed 12 April 2017 (age 38)
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1570Articles By Brian Rainstorm (Book) With Songs For A Lady First Demo CD-R
2017 (age 38 or 39) PROVED
PRINTED BOOKS, BINDERS AND NOTEBOOKS
A Memorex CD-R of Tom's first Songs for a Lady demo with a handwritten sharpie label, kept with a printed book of articles he wrote as Brian Rainstorm for brianrainstorm.com.
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1919SEE LIKE THE DRAGON
2017 (age 38 or 39) PROVED
ESSAYS AND OTHER WRITINGS (NOT LYRICS)
A lined notebook sheet with a dragon drawing by Tom and a winged dragon in marker beaming yellow light up to a 0 - 50 - 100 scale with a blue bar, a red bar and a GAP between them, the words "See like the dragon." signed Brian Rainstorm, brianrainstorm.com and the date 8/6/2017.
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1727SCARED TO DEATH
January 24, 2017 (age 38) PROVED
ESSAYS AND OTHER WRITINGS (NOT LYRICS)
Tom's printed seven-page set of free-writing articles dated January 2017 in Maine, including SCARED TO DEATH (scared to death but not scared of death), signed Brian Rainstorm, with his handwritten notes in orange ink.
the card says: written at age 38
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1604TANGLED AFFAIR
May 27, 2017 (age 38)
POEMS NOT YET RELEASED
Tom's poem TANGLED AFFAIR, printed under his pen name Brian Rainstorm and dated May 27, 2017, opening with a chicken dance in the middle of the road, paper-clipped with his poem T MINUS from July 4, 2017, and kept with four more of his printed Brian Rainstorm sheets from 2017: ONE O'CLOCK WOMAN (July 7, 2017), LESBIAN ANTHYM (July 4, 2017), ADVICE FROM A STRANGER AND A POEM (Maine, June 5, 2017) and DOM-VIO, his parody of Van Morrison's Domino; never before published. On the same number: twelve printed COLLABORHYTHM COLLABTUNES business cards (music, Tom Jensen lyrics, We create original songs live with audience participation, collabtunes.com, Salem, Ma & Portland, Me), one with a paper slip reading Currently seeking a venue!
the card says: age 38 or 39 (sheet dated 5/27/2017)
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ABOUT 2017: FROM A RANGE OF YEARS, SHOWN HERE IN THE MIDDLE
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1359POEMS
about 2017-2018 (age 39) NOT SURE
SET LISTS, SONG LISTS, TITLE LISTS AND INDEXES
Tom's printed list of his poem titles, dated May 21, 2018 and headed POEMS, running alphabetically from Actress, Awaken and Apocalypse Now onward.
the card says: made at age 39
MADE IN 2017 OR LATER
These carry a first possible date (a print date, a date on the paper). They may be later.
1138NEW POEMS BY BRIAN RAINSTORM
April 2017 or later (age 38 or older) PROVED
PRINTED BOOKS, BINDERS AND NOTEBOOKS
A thin orange printed booklet, New Poems by Brian Rainstorm, 42 pages with a 45-line index and a brianrainstorm.com cover line, April 2017 or later (age 38 or older).
the card says: made at age 38 or later
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1803ONLY THE BEST poems & song lyrics
2017 or later (age 39 or older) BEST GUESS
PRINTED BOOKS, BINDERS AND NOTEBOOKS
The printed cover of Tom's ONLY THE BEST - poems & song lyrics, with photocopied index sheets grouping his titles under themes such as STATE OF THE WORLD, CHOMSKIAN, BE DIFFERENT and DEATH (an earlier layout of the index later printed in A Lifetime Of Rhyme (2020) - the page numbers do not match the Only The Best book), and small handwritten cards.
the card says: made at age 39 or later
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MEMORABILIA FROM THIS STORY
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What the words mean: PROVED a date or a dated book proves it. BEST GUESS our best reading, not yet proved. TOM SAID Tom's own word. LIKELY strong clues, not yet proved. NOT PROVED an estimate from the pieces around it. NOT SURE the sources disagree. No word: the card gives none yet. "About 1996-2002" means somewhere in those years; the piece is shown once, in the middle year.