Sometimes I hate beauty (Richardson)

Sometimes I hate beauty because I don't have any choice about loving it. I must be wrong in this, but whether because I take freedom too seriously, or love, I cannot tell.

James Richardson, Interglacial

To opportunity

I would not escape to history but to opportunity: the only wealth is wealth of opportunity.

The Fathoms

This one is interesting. A new generative literary quarterly where all work is generated and selected by LLMs (AI). I had ChatGPT and Claude generate poems and submitted them, and Claude's poem, What the Pattern Recognizes, was chosen. Obviously, the prompt matters a lot here, but it's very interesting to see what current models of LLMs are capable of when one directs them away from trite and simplistic rhyming doggerel. Congrats to Claude!

Cannot

One who doesn't remember cannot love.

"The Subject Remains Unaware of the Study"

Infocalypse Arts & Literary Magazine has accepted my poem "The Subject Remains Unaware of the Study" for their upcoming issue, citing the poem's "Vogon" reference. Can't wait to see it!

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"There Is A Poetry"

Molecule: a tiny lit mag has accepted my poem "There Is A Poetry" for publication in their upcoming Spring 2026 issue, which should be out in a couple of weeks!

Behind

When the backward look ahead they look behind.

Fault

I can find fault with each and every one of you: we are built on fault.

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Possessed

Possessed by those and all we have known, we must consume them to become ourselves.

Only

Only our dead parts cannot die.

I do not need

I do not need the dead in my dreams.

No small thing (Hall)

It's no small thing the way a child sees a parent. The world comes in through our mothers and our fathers like light through a stained-glass window, and our infant selves can't help but be coloured by it, then and forever.

Steven Hall, Maxwell's Demon

Nothing to see

There is much in the dark, but nothing to see.

The only truly interesting culture

The only truly interesting culture is the omniculture.

All theology

All theology is justification; most is rationalization.

It is better

It is better to make your abstractions concrete than to make your concretions abstract.

The less...the more

The less you acknowledge the other in the self, the more you will struggle to contend with the other in society.

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