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

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Heaven & hell

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

New poems

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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.

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The markers of quit

What is ugly in the elderly is the resignation, the markers of quit.

Someone's normal

That which seems outrageous, that which seems unbearable, is someone's normal.

A condemnation

That every step is a step away,
a step further into the strange,
is a condemnation of others,
not a criticism of self.