It’s a Pyrrhic victory, but I decided last year to start deleting old content from Facebook. Most of it wasn’t what you’d call “evergreen,” and I got to thinking that nearly twenty years’ worth of posts wasn’t something I needed to have “memorialized” if I dropped dead tomorrow. It would be easier to delete my account, but like everyone else, I bought stock in popcorn and settled in with friends there to watch the world implode. For what it’s worth, see Take That, Facebook! You Can't Have My Content! The title is mostly just poking fun at the silly copy/paste blurb that goes around every few years asserting to all the world that you think you’re powerful enough that some post you make on Facebook will keep Facebook from doing exactly what you’ve told it it can do by agreeing to it’s multiple-document terms of service when you sign up or continue to use its platform. Or from doing things it never claimed it had any intention of doing in the first place.
That reminds me, it’s almost time to delete January.
Then, there were whole lists of naughty words our new overlords instructed various agencies to expunge from their websites and training and contracts (oh, my!) I thought it would be fun - and I invite everyone to join in - to write Poetry from Banned Words. Not a significant act of resistence, but I’ll take it as an opportunity to poke fun at an administration that prefers to create chaos and outrage and useless busywork to doing anything worthwhile for its constituents.
A Few Little Microsoft Word Tricks for My Poet Friends contains instructions for splitting a large document - for example, a huge file full of poems - into individual files based on headings, and a utility that may help when formatting a poem composed in Word to copy/paste into a Facebook post.
Artist Date, Ekphrastic Poetry, and AI as Impartial Critic contains a glimpse into my creative process this week, which includes enlisting the aid of ChatGPT to critique a poem. I’ve included the link to my conversation with “Cat Farts” to show how it assisted me in revising an ekphrastic poem.
Do check out my books, including the latest anthology releases, People, Places, and Pets and Poems from the Rebel Outpost, on Amazon or on Barnes & Noble online.
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