It is primarily about World War II in Europe. It deals with

the French Revolution and the building of Eastern European

Socialism. His life and Reagan years. The only text of the computer

poem is presented.

Stephen Sweigart wrote this poem as his first computer

poem in BASIC. In the late 1980s. After one semester

at graduate school at Temple University, he studied

Computer programming at a county Community college.

He is now retired working part-time after 40 years full-time.

He plays classical piano, and is an audiophile and gardener.