WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Super Tuesday

February 5, 2008

Snapshot Poem 05 February 02008

Super Tuesday The citizenry is aroused. The citizenry is saying No! No! No!But that’s not all. The citizenry is saying Yes! Yes! Yes! Smoky rooms are in disarray. Pundits have much to say. Conservatives are thumbing through the dictionary. The left weighs liberal versus progressive. Boomers wax nostalgic. The young dance in the streets. Thin… Continue reading

Snapshot Poems 2008

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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.

Super Tuesday

Snapshot Poem 05 February 02008