2026.07
Own Your Words or They'll Own You
A Public Service Announcement from Your Friendly Nation-hood Poet to start your day.
2026.07
The Spirit of America is the antithesis of AI.
2026.07
Artificial Intelligence makes pixels; people make words.
2026.07
What force waves to you? My ghost.
What force waves to you? My ghost.
On how human writing will always trump what AI can do.
We could gather all the kind people in the world in a singular moment and all of us all at once say: Enough.
2025.08.13
I thought it might help us all if you knew.
You believe in magic now. You hold your copy close.
A literary journal of contemporary poetry and essays... wrote daily with human hands (and my ghost) as the sunrises.
I'd put it in a poem if I thought you'd read it there.
This site is a poet's reaction to the video game personal shopper called AI.
That's another hazard of AI, that people won't write as much.
There's a handshake, a hug, and (for alliteration's sake) a hump, all for possibilities more than the flick, tap, and swipe of a screen.
Think of AI like a personal shopper to think of it right.
Imagine a world where a library's code of quiet consideration was the law of the land.
The Press is a for hire misplaced-its-moral-compass mess, the government is a house of contradiction, our people, though disgruntled by all of it, keep our spirits up and strong.
A new slogan for a still chuggin' along experiment in modern day journaling.
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