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Author of five novels, a hundred short stories, and a thousand poems. Man, are my fingers tired!
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I'm finding delight in Erin Murphy's Insomnia Chronicles. oneartpoetry.com/2025/02/21/t...

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I placed a poem in a journal that places itself at the intersection of poetry and mathematics. That sound you hear is my high school algebra teacher fainting to the floor.

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Today's writing music: Greatest Hits, Tracy Chapman

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Today's writing music: North, by Elvis Costello

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Today's writing music: Abbey Road, again.

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If I owe you money Venmo is no longer an option. I spent too much time in AI hell and they refused to connect me to a human being without jumping through too many hoops. Their AI was too stupid to answer my needs, which is more and more common.

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Some miscreant stole my credit card number and tried to use it. Luckily, I caught it right away and reported it, which required me to get a new credit card. Now I find it dropped my credit score. Luckily, I need no credit, but this seems wrong to me. I did nothing to suggest I'm a bad risk.

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On Amazon music? Check out my writing playlist. It's energetic. music.amazon.com/user-playlis...

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Today's writing music: some old Franz Ferdinand.

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Rumor has it Musk is demanding access to the teleprompter at the Super Bowl.

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I had a draft poem that I thought rather opaque, and I was concerned that the reader wouldn't get it. I uploaded it to Copilot, the Windows AI, and asked for an interpretation. To my surprise, it nailed every nuance of the poem in a way I could only hope to receive in a critique group. Eerie.

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My poem "Exodus" is live now in the new issue of the Hoxie Gorge Review. It's even more timely today than when I wrote it. hoxiegorgereview.com/tom-barlow/

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In writing up some promotional material I accidently wrote "We are a not-for-prophet organization." We could use more of those.

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Status: In recovery from a horrid football season. Again. #Browns

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I'm an ex X. Howdy, compadres.

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I just can't watch football played on a blue field.

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#duneprophecy 2 episodes in I'm not hooked yet. So much world building is part of it, but I mostly miss a sympathetic viewpoint character like Paul Atreides.

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I look at the President elect and I see Phineas T. Bluster. (Ask your grandparents).

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