If people want to generate art for their own purposes, it's whatever; but yeah, I do worry about gen content muscling in on spaces that are meant for artists to share and appreciate each others' work.
Like when I'm reviewing sketches on Drawabox, it's not just about the image, it's about an aspiring artist trying to get good at making marks so they can express themselves.
Just down the street from
where you are I am sitting at a cafe
believing in you. Thinking of you
has helped me put certain things
in perspective. For instance I wish
for I to record only its encounter
with you. You are the one who
rehinges all the names: your face
daisies at the sun, you glory
up the bare hill rallying the squirrels,
your voice trucks through the traffic
running reckless down the roads,
you catch the circling snow in your
sleepy lashes. What is my language
really for? Not to languish on the page
unheard & unlived, but to hold another
person, to address them—it’s true none
of my poems would matter
if I didn’t have the words to reassure,
to cheer, to delight, to soothe, to free
you. To make room for us, for how
we will be present together. I promise
to write to you through disaster, in
the face of violences sudden & slow
—I promise to never let you go.
Bridget Huh is an MFA candidate in poetry at Cornell University. Her poetry and criticism have appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Prism International, The Ex-Puritan, and Canthius. Huh grew up in Toronto and is the winner of the 2023 Vallum Poetry Award.
I found it here: https://thewalrus.ca/poem/
I'm just going to keep posting pictures of tea in various situations until someone tells me to cool it.
Description: a small white mug of dark English Breakfast tea with a longhaired cat looming over, all illuminated by a sunbeam.
Is what I say to myself as I shuffle away with my second cup of the morning.
Description: a dark cup of tea in a white and red mug with tiny pictures of landmarks on it
Description: a brown cup of tea, with milk in it, on a countertop
Are they really? I'm constantly disappointed by how my fellow humans vote in democracies, so maybe I'm just that out of touch. I thought most people would want to know what they were looking at was the product of human will and effort. Is that not your impression?