WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

cat hating

April 16, 2004

Cat Hating circa 1965

A CAUTIONARY TALE ON THE DANGERS&nbsp OF PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp TO YOUNG, IMAGINATIVE MINDS &nbsp&nbsp She: &nbsp&nbsp I hate cats. Cats are evil. Me: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Cats are evil? She:&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Yes. Cats kill babies. Me: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Cats kill babies?!? She:&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Yes. At night, they go to the closet and get dry cleaning bags. Then they drag… Continue reading

Friday Cat Blogging 1

cat blogging, cat hating, cats

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.

cat hating

Cat Hating circa 1965