The Long Count

The Long Count is a collection of poems and prose written by User:Spain Sun, it is double-framed, first as the observations of a traveling poet named Lume D'Orbe, and further out, as the annotated memoirs and collected works of that same poet several years later. The work is largely poems, interspersed with memoir-style prose passages and annotations, most of the poems have footnotes. The work is not currently finished, however the Poems This Town is Dead, The Poet (the introduction), and Love, as Found in Certain Parts of New York's Chinatown that look more like Tokyo than Peking can be found here. Most of the poems are long descriptions, bizarre abstractions, or narratives ending in thudding non-sequiturs or complete anticlimax.

Tropes that apply to The Long Count

 * An Aesop - Several of the poems have one, ranging from the stock and mundane to the bizarre.
 * Author Avatar - Lumine D'Orbe is not a straight example, but rather a genderflipped version of the author's ideal self.
 * Its Pronounced Tropay - "Looh-Meen Dorb", yeah.
 * Shout-Out - Tons of them, usually made explicit in the footnotes.