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Friday Cat Blogging 2011

January 9, 2011

More About Belle

Belle thinks that toileting is a collective exercise. Every time I go to the bathroom, so does she. Have you ever been sitting quietly, minding your own business (so to speak) when a cat popped up between your thighs? She loves to do this. It can be a bit unsettling for folks I've forgotten… Continue reading

Friday Cat Blogging 2011

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January 1, 2011

New Year Cat Blogging

While recovering from last evening’s celebrations, you can peruse Friday Ark #324: Happy New Year and: Carnival of the Cats, every Sunday The 354th edition, 12/26, is up at Meowsings of an Opinionated Pussycat The 355th edition, 1/2, will be hosted by Nikita and Elvira Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos, which is about… Continue reading

Friday Cat Blogging 2011

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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.

Friday Cat Blogging 2011

More About Belle

New Year Cat Blogging