With thanks to IT and Rupert for posting my poem today. You can read it here: https://internationaltimes.it/acquaintance/

Could have been titled Finding More Found Work About Contempt.

I’m as sure as can be that I wrote this! But I have completely forget it. Over the years I have come across so much contemptuous nonsence about teaching/testing writing, and I have usually shown my anger through satirical reworkings of the original: here, toying with aspects of its silly questions on how to ‘accurately’ write complex (technically…) sentences.

It’s a model that comes from years of similarly ludicrous KS3 SATs of Writing.

I can’t remember where I found this and then found this as a poem, but I trust it speaks incomprehensively for itself…

Furthering my early engagement with Microsoft (Word) Copilot, this is the next sequence. Having produced the following TextArt as an exploration of wave function in quantum mechanics (so a mere gesture of representation, and as poetic rather than analytical…), I’ll present that TextArt and then let Copilot speak for itself:

This is the prompt (question) I asked Copilot, and its response,

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My thanks to IT and Rupert for posting today. You can read the poem here: https://internationaltimes.it/reverse-brakes/

Dedicated to Valerie who continues to walk where others do not have to tread…

My sincere thanks to De Villo for sharing a snapshot of my concrete poetry on his blog, including a most thoughtful and generous commentary.

You can read his selection of my work here: https://newconcretepoetry.blogspot.com/2025/02/poetry-scares-fascists-other-new.html?spref=tw

Delighted to be with Ranger again – with thanks to David A. Bishop.

Do check out the vibrant range, and you can read my concrete poems here: https://www.rangermagazine.net/ferguson_issue9

Delighted to be a part of the new edition of Streetcake Magazine, a stalwart of presenting experimental writing in the broadest sense.

I have enjoyed so much of the other work, and I do in particular recommend ‘Village Gossips’! Love it…

My thanks to editors Nikki and Trini. You can find and download a pdf copy here: https://www.streetcakemagazine.com/uploads/2/4/7/1/24713274/issue94.pdf

With my thanks to IT and Rupert for posting my poem here today: https://internationaltimes.it/watching-the-bathers/

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