WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Artificial Intelligence AI

August 6, 2026

“What Questions and Disrupts”

I have come to the conclusion that what makes us special is our particular capacity for evil. Other animals cause suffering to their own kind or others for food, mating, status, or the defense or acquisition of territory. No other creature causes suffering in other creatures for no reason except to cause suffering. Continue reading

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Collage, Unpopular Opinions

Artificial Intelligence AI, digital collage, human uniqueness, unpopular opinions

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.

Artificial Intelligence AI

“What Questions and Disrupts”