Thoughts In Transit

Distantiation (see Tony Tost's blog) rather than 
Anti-Traditional (see Stan Apps' blog) 
is now on the table.                       

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Following are related opening thoughts in transit.                     
                                                                  
Each of us is a captive of one's time and place,      
and also of one's responses to the ongoing events 
which constitute the structuring of who one is    
within one's ever-changing time and place.  I might
find a specific public event emotionally paralyzing.
A 2nd person might find that same event exhilarating.
A 3rd person might conclude it's emotionally neutral
and so might view me and person 2 as tending toward
opposite insanities.  I am a white American male who     
is (as has been suggested about Fernando Pessoa)     
mostly a sexual non-participant.  I am reclusive.
I could reveal more, but there is no real need to.
Read what I've written and made available online.
                                                      
11.5.07 - Have been rethinking aspects of who I am          
and of how I have come to where I am.  Because my   
memory does not operate in that manner I perceive    
is appropriate for a scholar, I cannot say I am a
scholar.  I do, however, learn from scholars.  Often
I am heuristic, and have several times rediscovered
a known fact I was not aware of until some more   
knowledgeable person pointed it out to me.  I am    
not eclectic in the sense of choosing the best from   
various sources, not eccentric in the sense of being
consistently whimsically odd; but I am stylistically
multifarious, yet rarely/ solely for the sake of being    
so.  I am simply open to disparate ways of seeing,    
and am ever curious about the nature and value of    
those ways.  Nothing--past or present or predicted--
is irrelevant.  I have had numerous precursors, some
of whom I have directly and/or indirectly conversed
with.                                                  
                                                            
11.6.07 - Many of us online addicts are, in a way, web
wimps: arrogant innocuous Internet arachnids who/
with each new strand provide information to the search
engine robots who are watching and learning from us.
As I found out yesterday, European futurist Raymond    
Hammond believes: the future is already here.  He has
proven through his consistent Google tests that what   
I said above is indeed occurring.  Still, though our   
online activities could lead humans into a virtual    
imprisonment ruled by AI beings, it could also lead  
humans to a higher level/ centering on rejoicing in    
individual differences and on the dissolution of      
hegemonic attitudes.  If we evolve as Robert Jastrow's
predicted we will, the noosphere will become for us   
a new Eden where humans and their AI and nano and    
other beneficial creations will not be at odds with  
each other, and the deleterious aspects of the urge   
to control/ will vanish.  As I recently wrote in a   
post: "If we cannot live with each other, we will die
because of each other."  We are also in a race against
harmful bacteria and viruses and insects and . . . ,
but we are daily making inroads.  I get a weekly     
email synopsis from the Kurzweil AI site.  It's amazing     
what humans are more-and-more rapidly rising
toward.  Kurzweil and others call it the Singularity.
Some call it the Omega Point.  Certain mathematicians
have constructed a time-line algorithm pertaining to
human discoveries.  It is thought by them and others
that December 21, 2012, is the date we will connect   
with Infinity.  As you may know, that date (or one   
close to it) is when the current phase of the Maya-
created long-count calendar ends.  But I am not a   
prognosticator.                                        
                                                       
11.7.07 
These days when   a possible poem   begins to enter  
the field of my mental awareness   I attempt to    
ascertain   what it is it wants to be (how it wants
to structure itself).  Since I believe an inherent  
aesthetic exists in every poem, I do not need to    
(though I sometimes do) impose an aesthetic.  The        
quest is to find   and be true to   the guiding               
aesthetic   within the developing   work at hand.
                                
11.8.07 - If you allow the existence of God (of a    
Supreme Being), Anne Carson says there is no way    
for us to know that being because we simply do not  
have the capacity to comprehend such a being.  Her
view is both supported and circumvented by a story
Augustine shared in his writings.  While walking    
along a Mediterranean shore, Augustine came upon 
a child with a bucket.  This child was taking water   
from the sea and pouring it into a hole in the sand.
Augustine, who chose to walk along the shore while
he tried to figure out how God could be 3 Persons,
asked the child what he was doing.  The child said
he was putting the sea into the hole he had made.
Augustine said: That is not possible.  The child
said: Neither is it possible for you to understand
the Trinity.  There have, in my life, been numerous
occasions wherein I have seen the hand of God.  
My inability to know this God does not pertain.  
Belief in a God is a matter of faith.  The stories I 
could relate are not as awing as Augustine's, but    
they are nearly incredible.                         
                                                       
11.9.07 - So, if my interpretations are correct:
Tony Tost (toast) is an at-a-distance poet, which is
to say that there are certain poets he admires and   
therefore learns from but/ seeks to diverge from.   
Stan Apps (?: perhaps as it is in "zapps") is an
ignotus futurus poet, which is to say that there
are certain poets he admires and therefore learns    
from but/ seeks to escape from.  Each of these poets
has provided poem-proof of his position.  (That pod
has five peas!  Puuf!)  But why is it humans have    
such a desperate need to label every thing?  Here:
you sit in box one, and you sit in box two, and   
I'll sit in box three.  Okay, I'll sit in box 3.    
Brian Salchert (Saul'kurt) is an odd multifarious
conversations poet, which is to say that there are
certain poets he admires and therefore learns from
but/ seeks to converse with.  These coversations,  
however, occur in different ways.  [ Note: since I
do not wish to show any of my poems in this blog,
I am going to insert hyperlinks to examples.  I
make no claim as to any example's worth.  I am not
interested in anyone's opinion, but anyone who
cares to/ may qwerty one. ]
1) signs conversing with signs (lists of words)
18 words in 2 columns   
2) non-word sign artifacts (sound/phonetic objects)
performance-oriented sound poem
3) words in a picture format (diamante)
topic: diamonds
4) mixed-media presentations (colors/words/shapes)
had forgotten about Creeley's "here"
when I wrote this                                                       
My best interior dialogue example is "Doom" from my
1972 Rooted Sky book, but it is/ rather long.                       
5) interior dialogues or multiple "I"
"I" here could be a bird, me, another human, God
6) artifacts about the making of said artifacts
a word game in which the about is
7) direct addresses to some other or others
addresses to each of three plants
8) address to another poet
sonnet written in 1962 to John Keats  
9) addresses to myself
direct address to myself which begins as
an indirect address to its reader                             
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