WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

November 4, 2008

President Barack Obama

I can't stop crying.

Politics

3 responses to “President Barack Obama”

bobbi

November 5, 2008 at 10:04 am

Isn’t it just amazing! It’s been a damn long time since I’ve felt proud of my country, but I feel it this morning…

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Courtney

November 5, 2008 at 10:57 am

Neither can I. 😀

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Frances

November 6, 2008 at 12:06 am

I no longer feel the need to be ashamed of my Boston ancestors! Congratulations to all. Fran

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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.

President Barack Obama

3 responses to “President Barack Obama”

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