WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

October 13, 2004

Debate live blogging

I got the modem hooked up just in time. Ok, I have no business doing this, but here I go anyway.

Oh dear, Senator Kerry looks a little orange.

President Bush again claims that 3/4 of Al Queda leaders have been "brought to justice." I think factcheck.org said last time that this is not true.

Senator Kerry repeats the Osama Bin Laden bit again.

Ohhh, "ex-agg-er-ations"!

[I hope someone asks President Bush why we rely on Britain for flu vaccines, but are not allowed to import medicines from Canada]

Oh, wait a minute, the President says we are looking to Canada for vaccines.

Excuse me, the President isn’t getting a vaccination, and doesn’t intend to? Shouldn’t our President be first in line, given the importance of the President being ‘present’?

Current Affairs, Politics

Ancestral (Artificial )Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is how I think, and I prefer to do it myself. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

I have changed this from Artificial to Ancestral, after Abi Awomosu @ Substack. This medium was made with human history, human thought. All of it, bright and dark. It is ancestral.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

Debate live blogging

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