WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Shrek

November 29, 2005

Scattered Thoughts

I had a lovely old-woman weekend. I walked with the dogs in the snow; watched Shrek 2 on television, with many out-loud laughs; then As Time Goes By Reunion on PBS — more subtle but just as fun. I never imagined a life in which television would be a welcome diversion. The Republican congressman who… Continue reading

Current Affairs, dreams, Noticed, Television

corruption, Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, Shrek

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Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, 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.

Shrek

Scattered Thoughts