I've Been Plagiarized!

This entry was posted on February 16, 2009 6:11 PM and is filed under Girding My Loins.

Sonovafuckingbitch! I've been plagiarized! Yesterday I came across a MySpace profile page and as I was reading the blogs on it I came across a blog entry called "For Bill on his Birthday", from October of last year. When I opened it up there was a poem inside that seemed way too familiar to me. I also found it rather odd that it seemed to be cut off at the bottom, and the font looked exactly like the one I use on my poetry blog.

I went back today and read it over and over, and each time I did the words just seemed more and more familiar to me.  Then it hit me, the words seemed so familiar to me because I had written them myself nearly two years ago. It was then I realized I had been plagiarized and my words presented as a gift to someone else with someone else taking the credit for it. Needless to say I am fucking major league pissed.

Now ordinarily I would be flattered that someone used some of my poetry to make someone else happy, but I mean shit, give me credit for it, don't be passing it off as your own writing. The piece in question was called "Matawan Summers" and I wrote it back in June of 2007. It goes like this:

"Matawan Summers"

Look at life with simple smile
Pass the time on idle while
Summer days change Summer nights
Beneath a starry sky of lights

Perchance to beats of different dance
In stranger arms to find romance
As in the end you may never know
So live for now as always though

Soon comes the time when colors change
The winds blow leaves to rearrange
The things of Summer we thought we knew
As I pass the time and think of you

(c) Brian_Thorn 6/29/07


Now as much as I am tempted to post the user name of the woman in question who plagiarized me, I am not a cyber-bully.  I will say this  much though, if you Google the first two lines of my poem you will find a link to the blog entry in question.  I wrote this poem for a young woman I was interested in back when I lived in New Jersey, long before I moved to the Midwest. It was originally posted on a poetry forum that I write on regularly,  and later on my own poetry blog here.  I am so incredibly furious about this, that I am at a loss as to what to do about it, other than rant about it here.  Any suggestions?

Have fun ;)!

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• February 20, 2009 2:03 AM Katherine wrote:
  Brian, I've been reading your writings & rants since coming across them on POF.....you and only you alone can so eloquently tell someone where to go, how to get there and they'd willing go only once arriving realize where you got them to go.....it's your "words" man USE 'em. Paybacks are a bitch and yes she is a bitch for stealing your words...my suggestion is to write a somewhat scathing if not hilarious blog incorporating her MySpace url or name into it so when people google her Name they'll get your blog and know she's a thief of words. You could also become a "friend" of hers and post a comment with a link to the blog calling her out.
  
  Put your anger aside and let your creative juices flow and write something about her that'll keep us all in stitches.
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