A rather amazing  post from bluesky.  “Nontent”?  So creative.  And the idea of “no-0ne” meaning AI. Sweet. I don’t want to read something no-one has written. I don’t want to look at something no-one has drawn. I don’t want ‘Happy Birthdays’ no-one has wished me. And I don’t want this destructive, thieving, soulless nontent sending…

Some call this “The Muse”. When it wants you on its team, best heed and play. Here is more to chew on if you are a writer: let the writing choose you. Yeah, I know, it is not an earth-shattering affirmation and revelation. Stolen straight from Samuel Butler via Ken Macrorie’s book The I-Search Paper…

This is the issue, right? How do we honor the thing, right? And what is the thing? The poem? the poet? The arrow that springs from the bow of the world or the target we fix with it? Isn’t it pretty to think that? Yes, it is. Poetry helps us freeze the arrow of time…