WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

bugged

October 8, 2004

Bush Bugged?

[UPDATE Sunday, October 10 – Please check the Comments on this post for another point of view] Hmmm. Perhaps this explains what I saw in the first presidential debate. This article speculates that President Bush was "having cues and lines fed to him through a hidden high-tech earpiece." On one of the cable news networks… Continue reading

Current Affairs, Politics

bugged, Bush, debates, wired

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.

bugged

Bush Bugged?