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a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

why the pollsters got it wrong

January 13, 2008

I Have This to Say About That

Don’t those pollsters know that married women lie in the presence of their husbands? They lie mostly about money and politics. And sex. That, too. They sneak shopping bags in the back door. If their husbands notice something new, they say, "What? This ole thing?" And when they pull that poll booth curtain closed, who’s… Continue reading

Current Affairs, Poems

Clinton, elections, new hampshire, Obama, poem, Politics, primaries, what the pundits missed, why the pollsters got it wrong

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.

why the pollsters got it wrong

I Have This to Say About That