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Unitarian Jihad

April 15, 2005

Unitarian Jihad

Clicking takes you to the Flickr photo page Sister Garrote of Forgiveness and Brother Trebuchet of Kind Equanimity wish you a most excellent Friday. Both are named members of the Unitarian Jihad, an extremely radical group, whose manifesto (reported by Jon Carroll) reads as follows: Greetings to the Imprisoned Citizens of the United States.… Continue reading

Friday Cat Blogging 3

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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.