Poetry

Poetry is a kind of poetry.

How long?

How long can you contain the madness? How long can you maintain the mad idea that madness can be contained?

Inside

Inside every adequacy is a center of deficiency.

The future skeptic (ChatGPT)

The future skeptic may need to be less:

"I know this is false because I know the tricks."

and more:

"I don't know whether this is true yet, and I am comfortable not knowing."

That last part is huge.

Because the misinformation ecosystem's greatest weapon isn't necessarily making you believe false things.

It's making you feel that you must have an opinion immediately.

And AI is going to make that worse because it can produce an apparently authoritative answer to almost any question in seconds.

ChatGPT

Unless

Going this way means little unless I could have gone that way.

Poetry is

Poetry is the phasing phrase.

We love best

We love best the contour, but learn most from the cross-section.

I want to know most

I want to know most what I can't conceive in terms of the already known.

New poems

+30

Heaven & hell

Heaven is a blank sheet of paper; hell, a pen that has run out of ink.

New poems

+15

I can't imagine

I can't imagine tying my identity to identification with a group—what a diminishment!

If you are going to take it

If you are going to take it, take it personally.

Their insistence

It's not their being wrong that damns them, but their insistence on their right to insist they are right when they are wrong.

On credulity (ChatGPT)

The internet didn't invent credulity.

What it did was industrialize the distribution, targeting, personalization, and monetization of credulity.

That's different.

And that distinction matters because it changes the remedy.

ChatGPT

Not always

The implications are not always perceptible.

Built in

But profit has loss built into it.

A creative act

Any combination of two or more words is always a creative act.

Only the intelligible

Only the intelligible is eligible.

Life

Life is worth stealing, but not paying for.