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a poet’s notebook

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January 4, 2008

All About Cats

Spike and Boo recently came across NancyButtons.com, which has tons of buttons and bumperstickers all about cats. Just a sample: Cats are nature’s response to orderliness Cats are roommates. Dogs are kids. Cats don’t get into mischief. Cats are mischief. Cats know your every thought. They don’t care, but they know. Do not meddle… Continue reading

Friday Cat Blogging 2008

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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.

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All About Cats