Bibliographic record
Abstract
A Hippie in Alabama, and: Why Am I Making This Noise Rodney Jones (bio) A Hippie in Alabama Reading Tolstoy's Christian pacifist booksand a Rand McNally map of Canada,I had taken summer work, second shiftin a copper tubing factory, a posh job— I stood at a saw, tubes approached—chop chop—fat rings clinked in a bin. But like it was foldedin a book, the 6' 4" foreman on my shouldershouting "faster!" and Irv, the forklift guy, whispering, "Easy, honey. We do this all year."Driving home through cotton fieldsto write with careful urgency,in my journal: I was paralyzed in the dilemma. Some nights I see myself as Simone Veil.But I had made nearly a hundred dollars.When I learned the rings I cutwere obturating rings for mortar shells, I was horrified. I do not rememberwhen I learned, whoever told me. LikeWestmoreland, I counted bodies.30,000 times a night I mashed a button. [End Page 139] Why Am I Making This Noise With this worm and this wordI am teachingMy starling to talkworm worm worm I am careful to enunciateEach wordAt the exact instantI drop the worm right In front of herJigging it for emphasisTo further demonstrateMy meaning But when she paysNo mind think noOf course I haveUpset her she is A vegetarian soI find a berry theyAre not hard to findAnd again I work With two propsOne berry one wordberry berry berryI spin it as I say it But again zeroWell I say well I willUp the registerStarlings are Very smart haveYou never heard themWinging togetherOver a cornfield [End Page 140] Sometimes they willForm an hourglassPour through theNeck of the funnel And come outIn disparate squadsParallelogramsHexagons and Once in a light rainA parasol of starlingsBut all she doesIs flutter to the top Of a mulberryAnd fluff upMaybe I am notHer human but Listen close waitShe is saying achshe says ach achAnd though I have No langue d'ocI say it back ach ach achAnd as I say itI clack my sallow beak [End Page 141] Rodney Jones A Pulitzer finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award winner, Rodney Jones lives in New Orleans. His eleventh book, Alabama, was published by Louisiana State University Press in their Southern Messenger Poetry Series in the fall of 2023. Copyright © 2024 The Conference on Christianity and Literature
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.170 | 0.060 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".