The public needs an alignment grid for typewriter makes.

I love that the novel Frankenstein is a letter sent home by a dude trying to get rich by finding a northwest passage. “We wuz stuck in the ice, darlin’, and saw this monster on a sledge.” A model for us all.

Have you ever done a meetup of Cincy folks? Would be cool to find more friendly faces.

I enjoyed that! Though now the hymn is playing in my head. If it’s still playing tonight, I’ll be back

Typewriters are a joy to use. They invite you to stay in the creative moment, mind composing while the fingers wait, fingers marching while the mind holds the phrase. Try local first—Marketplace > eBay to find a working typer, in my experience. Ready with more details if it’s helpful!

Slightly diminish a book.

To Rough Up a Mockingbird

“Poetry is a kind of being” - I like this a lot. A form of existence, in miniature. It’s not the answer or an answer or a way to an answer. An answer is an end, and there is no answer to the questions of being.

Doesn’t have a conclusion and isn’t even working toward one.

It doesn’t seem like a dialogue, cuz that sounds like direct response. More like, I feel this thing, does that resonate? Also I experience this other thing, does that resonate? They can be persuasive and contrary to each other.

I have disagreements with myself about my own kind of being! Sometimes I write a poem in praise of a kind of being I don’t like and wish did not exist, but here it is!

Poems are arguments, but not arguments toward conclusions that would answer the questions of being.

With large language models like this chatbot, there is no “It” making decisions.

I think of it like genre writing. A romcom with a fast-forward-moving character would invite the protagonist over to their apartment. An invite needs an address, so rolls the computational dice and compiles one.

I wrote typewriter poems at events for several years here in Cincy. Such great conversations with people. How were the poems? They were a gift that came out of that interaction, that's how they were.

Groceries AND a nice box of pens

Don’t be fooled by his years of counseling and consoling families as their children are dying? The level of cynicism from this administration…

Does Ivanhoe’s even sell scoops? I only remember the long lists of sundaes and shakes. But it’s been a long time since I’ve been there, plainly.