WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

money

February 1, 2010

Life Changes

There are deep changes, and there are superficial changes. Sometimes, one is caused by the other, and sometimes it is difficult to tell which is which. Money can’t buy happiness, true; but it can buy clothes and cosmetics and cars and convenience. I have new clothes. Clothes without holes, or unraveling, or stains. Clothes that… Continue reading

Personal

change, money
September 22, 2008

My brain needs longer arms …

… as I try to wrap my mind around this, in some concrete way I can understand. Confetti Originally uploaded by ADoseofShipBoy We have a House (a real house), and a House Owner, and a House Buyer. The House Owner and the House Buyer work to find a Real Estate Agent to make a… Continue reading

Current Affairs

bailout, confetti, housing bubble, money, Wall Street

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.

money

Life Changes

My brain needs longer arms …