WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

how not to help

January 25, 2012

An Anger Rant . . .

. . . from Nevermore, who posted this in the Art Journal Caravan gallery: "Warning: TMI Rant. For the first time since Joe's terminal illness was diagnosed, I am angry. With everyone, including Joe. Yes, even Max is making me mad right now. "We are currently undergoing a series of stages that are… Continue reading

Friends & Family

anger, chronic illness, dying, Family, friends, helpers, how not to help, how to help, support, terminal illness

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.

how not to help

An Anger Rant . . .