WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Burns

November 4, 2006

The Same Rant, Again

I just feel compelled to repost this: . . . The very individuals who speak with disdain of the private, adult sexual lives of others, suddenly become coy about the exploitation of teenagers in their care. Those who condemn others for — sadly — ordinary sexual indiscretions, are publicly and undeniably revealed to have committed… Continue reading

Current Affairs, Politics

Abramoff, Burns, Foley, Haggard, Hastert, Ney, Politics, scandal

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.

Burns

The Same Rant, Again