WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

doomer

June 23, 2026

Three a.m. perseveration & a poem at the end of the world

. . . I think we have, in fact, literally gone crazy. We have developed a world-wide mental illness. By pretending that what is happening, is not, we make ourselves crazy. We live in unreality. We endorse the fantasy that ‘climate change is a hoax’ and then want to go on living as if all… Continue reading

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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.

doomer

Three a.m. perseveration & a poem at the end of the world