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April 21: I'm a die-hard genetic determinist. Hence, I believe that my life will turn out the same (except for trivial details) regardless of my environment (much of which I've chosen, even constructed, because of my genes). Nevertheless, I have to admit that I wasn't planning on making any new mathemaku for a while until the announcement about the readiness of Poetry to consider visual poems for publication, with Geof Huth acting as primary gatekeeper rather than someone inhouse unlikely to know much about visual poetry, and that I've made four new mathemaku in two or three weeks because of it, with a fifth on its way. Not only that, but I've tried for poems that I think will have a good chance of clicking with the editors, and readers, of Poetry and still have a chance with Geof.
So, do I give up my genetic determinism, or will my genes help me find a way to keep my faith in them? The latter. My genes had nothing to do with the Poetry opportunity, but they prepared me for it--and some such opportunity was bound to come, eventually. That is, my genes made me the sort of person who would stumble through life for years, but finally get an opportunity to gain recognition, and try to take advantage of it. And, who knows, maybe the editors of Poetry were influenced in some very indirect way by my constant criticism of their backwardness.
As for my latest poems, they were in me. I would have made them, or near-approximations of them, at some point, regardless of Poetry.
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