WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Conrad Burns

October 30, 2006

Another Confession from my Dark Side

On my way to the grocery store today, I saw this bumpersticker: Mr. Cheney, would you please take Conrad hunting? I laughed for two blocks. But I did feel guilty. Continue reading

Current Affairs

Conrad Burns, political humor
August 31, 2006

Meet the Montana Political Bloggers

Montana’s online activists are changing the balance of power in Democratic politics. Would you let these men drive your campaign? Thus asks the Missoula Independent, in an article by John S. Adams, available online. The article is based on a birthday party for Jon Tester, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, so most of the… Continue reading

Current Affairs, Montana Bloggers

Blogging, Conrad Burns, Jon Tester, Montana politics, Politics

DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. I believe writing is thinking, and I prefer to do my own. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

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.

Conrad Burns

Another Confession from my Dark Side

Meet the Montana Political Bloggers