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a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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October 19, 2007

My WiLD SeLF

Ha! There I am: a lio-sha-fly-tiger. If you have children (or child-like people) at your house, send them off to BuiLD YouR WiLD SeLF at the Bronx Zoo. Lots of silly fun, there. And if you think that’s scary, look at Itsy-Bitsy: My aunt tells me she looks angry in this photo. Well of course… Continue reading

Friday Cat Blogging 9

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September 21, 2007

Virtual Cats, Again

Last week I got a note from: Nekoface International is owned and operated by cats from the future (the year 2009). The creatures from Nekoface.com create clothing fashions, cat music, and other forms of art that express their everyday adventures living in the city of Shinbun. The company is named after a cat (nekoface), who… Continue reading

Friday Cat Blogging 9

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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.

friday catblogging

My WiLD SeLF

Virtual Cats, Again