WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

iCat

November 18, 2005

Silly Kittiness, or Kitty Silliness

Spike and Boo are not at all sure what to think of the human susceptibility to kitty cuteness. Are cats not graceful, elegant, sophisticated, dangerous, intelligent, independent, and superior? So what’s with all this sweet, harmless, roundness? I mean, Hello Kitty? What resemblence does this have to an actual cat? This via Boing… Continue reading

Friday Cat Blogging 5

cats, Hello Kitty, iCat, photograph, robotic cat

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.

iCat

Silly Kittiness, or Kitty Silliness