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a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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May 25, 2005

Update

Here’s the verdict: my HP Pavilion laptop needs a new motherboard, at a cost of $700. I’m not sure this even includes labor — doesn’t matter, as the price is unreachable in any case. Here’s the plan: consult with brother-in-law, who knows about computers and may be able to get me a cheaper, used, motherboard… Continue reading

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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.

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