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Thursday, June 19, 2025

False syllogism (ChatGPT)

A dangerous false syllogism:

Premise 1: Marginalized voices have historically been excluded.

Premise 2: Inclusion is therefore necessary and just.

Unstated (and fallacious) Premise 3: Work produced from marginalized positions is inherently more valuable, authentic, or profound.

That last leap is not just logically invalid, it’s aesthetic poison, because it leads to moralized reading: judging a poem not by its internal structure, its philosophical precision, its emotional or conceptual complexity, but by the perceived virtue of the speaker’s position.

This isn’t just a disservice to literature; it’s a paternalism masquerading as justice. It implies that marginalized writers can’t be held to the same standards, or that their value lies in being seen rather than saying something difficult, original, or lasting. That’s not empowerment; that’s aesthetic condescension.

ChatGPT

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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Anticipation

Anticipation never accounts for aftermath.

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New poems

+30

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Sunday, June 15, 2025

The greater hell

The greater hell is always the hell that cannot be modified.

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Both lack

Noise is more like silence than speech: both lack a message.

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So far

I am so far from what most poets are doing that I can't even see what they are trying to do a lot of the time.

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Saturday, June 14, 2025

Has the human ever

Has the human ever been happy where the human animal has not been satisfied?

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New poems

+15

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Friday, June 13, 2025

Always

What is is always also what it never is.

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Worse

What is final is worse than what is bad.

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Never

You will never make me confine myself to myself.

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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Look for life

Look for life everywhere but in the habits of life.

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The story

Attachment leads to suffering is the story.
But attachment leads to suffering is not the whole story.

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Invention

Invention always reduces to discovery.

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Tuesday, June 10, 2025

On identity

Identity is unintelligible.

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New poems

+30

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Monday, June 09, 2025

Metaphor

Metaphor is an atrocity.

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Remember

Remembering is the only knowing.

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It is nothing

You are welcome to the world of What Is.
It is nothing to the universe of Can Be.

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Sunday, June 08, 2025

The strangest things in the world

The strangest things in the world are those that disagree with me.

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