WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

save an alien

November 13, 2007

Save An Alien!

Have you saved an alien today? I saved one a couple of weeks ago. Of course, I haven’t checked on or visited it since. Typical imperialist. Here it is, safely quartered at Antarctica [click for larger image]: Its name is Za. The website tells me I should give it a human name, but… Continue reading

Frivolity

facebook, fun, save an alien, silliness

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.

save an alien

Save An Alien!