Is the poem “Friends Without Faces” by Rusty Black a published poem?
The above poem was not written in the above form originally. Rusty Black chose to take a poem, move around some words, and then call it his own. The Poem was originally written with the author name shown as TT Tigger which was a screen used in chat rooms on Prodigy. The actual name of the person who owned the chat name of TT Tigger was Tom Teague. Several other people have tried to claim being the author of the above poem over the years as well but in general those web sights have faded away. Many web sights carry this poem. Several of them give credit to Tom Teague and others merely show it as author unknown. It is also true that over the years, many of those web sites do have slightly altered versions of the original. To find these web sites and the various differences you need only to type in your browser the following: Friends Without Faces Teague I know that the above is accurate because my name is Tom Teague and I am the original author.
