THE YALETOWN OBSERVER

new claire symposium

Listening to: Enchanted Forest - Eagle Feather and Aida Mendoza 🎵

Prompt: "Describe the abstract impressions formed from cypress tree branches."


former wool delegate
dj paisley tablerunner
ampersand budget
paper traffick synergy

ten-thousand-yard sardo
grenable faucet
thymes new judas
pepper mill aefauld

colonel fudge
d-average assembly
millenium cobweb splage
grieg tarbet overdrive

refurbished canticle
cherry-picked mirligoes
enclave barbicide
mary gleason undercarriage

matricide canning
gentile jefferson scotchbonnet
turkmen fantasie

(ending this i need to sleep standing down again)

Notes:

Ugh OMG this is me right now --> 🤒🛌 + 🐶🩺 + 📝 = 🖕

0. Love this prompt, but writing was tortuous this morning.

I would really like to revisit this theme, perhaps among actual "real" cypress trees, and not a JPEG when I am finished hosting this low-grade diva fever... Phantom brainzaps, swollen pride, community fatigue, general malaise.

I wore a ballcap when I should have worn a toque yesterday, if you know what I mean. More details in note #2.

1. We are putting a MORATORIUM on ChatGPT poetry prompts. It/they seem to think I am a sheltered pubescent public school AP English student who is on SSRIs and hormone replacements. Examples:

  1. Describe your body as a crime scene, but make the crime emotional.
  2. Write from the perspective of your worst impulse on its proudest day.
  3. Imagine your reflection develops opinions about you. Let it rant.
  4. Write a poem about the sound of something breaking — but never name the object.
  5. Take the last person you blocked or ghosted and write a eulogy for them.

🤢

  1. Turn an apology into a threat.
  2. Describe decay in a beautiful way, and beauty as something rotten.
  3. Write about a version of yourself that should never exist.
  4. Imagine you wake up and your emotions are gone — write about how you fake them.
  5. Write a poem where every line is a form of self-sabotage.

🤮 ! 🤮 ! 🤮! 🤮!

I have since installed SillyTavern, which has MUCH more dignity, and integrity.

Thank you so much to ChatGPT for recommending its replacement, and giving me step-by-step instructions to make itself obsolete. That's class.

2. Indeed, I have had a throat "thing"/acute "body cold" goin' on \since early yesterday evening. I have taken a vow of (vocal) silence, homemade soup and bedrest (and "Country Life Vlog")since then and have surrendered myself to regenesis.

It was nigh impossible to accomplish anything this morning. Hands, fingers almost useless. Disconnect, as if heart-mind coherence is stifled due to "expression" energy centers being compromised, updating to the latest Jo "OS", whatever. I hate the word "chakra". MacBook wants to correct it to "charade" 🙄

I feel like this: 🕸️🕸️🕸️🕸️🕸️🥟🕸️🕸️🕸️🕸️🕸️🕸️🕸️🕸️🕸️🕸️🕸️🧌🕸️🕸️🕸️🕸️🕸️🕸️🕸️🕸️🕸️

3. For this exercise in particular, I admit I had no idea what a cypress tree looked like. Being located currently in so-called "British Columbia", near the coast, I assumed we must have a bunch of these guys standing around.

I referenced the: Chamaecyparis nootkatensis, or "Cupressus nootkatensis"? Or Nootka Cypress, Alaskan Cedar. Family: Cupressaceae??? Are these even the same guy.

"It's very slow growing, with dense, resistant wood." Sounds like someone I know.

Dignity comes to mind, once again.