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a poet’s notebook

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robin prosser

November 6, 2007

NaBloPoMo | NaNoWriMo

My NaBloPoMo post for today is at Abide: Suffering & Honor, on medical marijuana and the death of Robin Prosser. And the first guest post is up at Blogging Blog: 5 Simple Tactics for Blogging Success, by Damien Riley. Thank you, Damien — and keep your eyes open; more guests will be writing this month! … Continue reading

NaBloPoMo ’07, NaNoWriMo ’07

abide, blogging blog, damien riley, NaBloPoMo, NaNoWriMo, robin prosser
November 6, 2007

Suffering and Honor

When I heard about this death, I felt anger, and despair. I never liked marijuana (control freak, I’m told) so in that sense this is not personal. But I know that many folks with fibromyalgia find relief with this drug. I know that, compared to other legal, prescription or ‘recreational’ drugs, this is a relatively… Continue reading

Disability Issues

fibromyalgia, lupus, medical marijuana, robin prosser

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.

robin prosser

NaBloPoMo | NaNoWriMo

Suffering and Honor