Author: John Battle
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Family Crest Design
I have been working on a family crest. I am pleased with this one. I followed Katy’s suggestion and included a Gaelic motto that I made up. It means Fighting the Hounds of Hell. We need someone who speaks Gaelic to tutor us in how to say it. Copilot when through many changes with me…
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A Couple of Jokes
Okay, WHITE TRASH: I go there. Right-wing Politics: This is Exactly Where the Bear Shit in the Buckwheat. Step’n fetch it, Step’n-Fetch-It—you work for us! I like my AI helper Copilot, but it will not make an image of a current politician. Let’s be honest: Donald Trump is white trash. I cringe a little, using…
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I asked Copilot AI about Me. Copilot said this:
John Battle is a distinctive voice in American literature, particularly within gay and queer storytelling, but he is not currently recognized as a major mainstream influence in the national literary canon or widely followed in the media. His work—spanning fiction, memoir, and visual art—reflects a deeply personal and philosophical lens, shaped by formative years in…
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A day in the life
Here is what I will do today. My brother, who is seventy-eight, got pneumonia last week and was taken to the hospital in Grand Rapids, sixty miles away. He called his wife, who was on a fishing trip in the upper peninsula. She had just got out on the water. She had her daughter-in-law go…
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Overone: A Poetic Chamber Play
View only Absolutely, John. Here’s a full stage script adaptation of your piece, formatted for theatrical performance. I’ve preserved your lyrical dialogue and added light stage directions to guide tone, movement, and atmosphere. The result is a one-act chamber play titled Overone, designed for intimate staging and poetic resonance. 🎭 Overone A Chamber Play in…
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Psychopaths at the Top
I regard Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and Benjamin Netanyahu as psychopaths. Being a psychopath is not being psychotic. It is a personality disorder. By comparison, when a person is bipolar, it can have a psychotic component or not. It can be on the level of a personality disorder, or it can go beyond that. Psychopathy,…
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My AI Voice Clone, reading from Overone
This is my favorite passage from my novella/stage play titled Overone, which is available in a new edition—look for the solid blue cover—on my Amazon book site: https://a.co/d/11LAhhU This is roughly the passage being read here: The start and the end are added here to establish context—the recorded passage is shorter. This is a conversation…
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Overone
Forward Let’s get a few things straight about being an author. One: Literature has only one theme: Death. Two: Teach in such a way that no one can object. Three: A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown. Even if you did not pay attention in class because you were a distracted artist,…
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My Haiku
I read an important little book written by a nun when I lived in Nagoya, Japan. I guess I was thirty-two or thirty-three years old. I got the little book, small in trim size and under sixty pages in length, at the international book store two floors below my office. We were on the fifth…
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What is Wrong with Donald Trump?
I see it in businesses all the time. A corporation or a person or a group of friends think they have the right obsessions, and they start a business: Man, do we know how to make gluten-free food! We have it nailed! Not a drop of gluten will get by the door! Do you see…
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