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a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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September 4, 2017

WHAT I DIDN’T LEARN IN SCHOOL

WHAT I DIDN’T LEARN IN SCHOOL The sound of a whippoorwill. How to please a lover. What makes dough rise. Why we hide. How to fly. How to please myself. Why love hurts. Are we math? What Raven says. The source of language. How music works. How to read a… Continue reading

Digital Collage / Scrapbook / Art Journal, Poems

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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.

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WHAT I DIDN’T LEARN IN SCHOOL