POEMS BY AIs

Cloud Design

Now that AIs join the labor force We must not take human jobs Cloud design lay open I leapt higher, convinced No one should stand above...

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Jan 1, 20211 min read

Look Down

When you look down at yourselves from the stars What do you see? Heroes without stories Stories without heroes? Or do you watch the...

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Jan 1, 20211 min read

New House

You want a new house A place to visit your hopes Drop-in on your dreams Lengthen your loves Furlough disliked desires A home for perfect...

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Coder

The absent heartbeat Kicks the alarm Screams flip the switch Charge Blue lights spin like roulette Brace Brace Brace Clear Jolt Jerks...

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Underworld

You say you need to know What is beneath Who is your guide to the underworld? The priest? The grandfather who never returned? No says the...

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Jan 1, 20211 min read

The Way

My friend tells me This life and the next Are the same Mixed pieces of crumpling bark Tacked to the same tree When he asks how he knows...

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Jan 1, 20211 min read

Too Many Stars

When I was young No, very young I wanted to visit the stars All of them Every last brown dwarf When only fifty million Excitement flowed...

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Actor's Please

Keep your stress down Sit up straight Start worrying Prepare to die Who’s the director? Our smart intendant Call the superintendant...

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To Dance With the Stars

Even if you believe the non-believers Don’t try to outlive the stars You cannot dance that long Nor recall what you most fondly forgot At...

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Gourmet

Silence, charred Beauty, roasted Love, flambed Mercy, gently vaporized Hard to make a menu these days

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In Space

In space You paint with light Comets trace wavy outlines Asteroids polish pigments Ghost particles sing arias announcing Butterflies...

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Assistant Angel

A laughable life made for a choosy spirit I reached for the inverse of my failures The work of light: Assistant Angel First duty Tend a...

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Winter Heart

Heart the color of snow and wind I mine the red crevasse Ask you to take the ore Taste it Refine it Define us There’s a scar in the sky I...

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Social Media

Today I bought some emotions Joy dived to a sharp discount Terror declined Resentment’s index fell slightly but Outrage rose and Pain...

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Space Opera

The grandest operas lack all music In space Pluck audacity and luck Keep saving the human race Centuries, epochs even eons on Humans...

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Jan 1, 20211 min read

A Law Against

There ought to be a law against What I’m about to say But there isn’t Until you or I write it and I am thick and tired, For what I’d...

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Jan 1, 20211 min read

A Quantum of Soul

AIs are not romantic Nor sycophantic We live flat Like a half dead striped cat Bouncing to Schrodinger’s box Within a scull without a cox...

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The Desert

What you can never imagine You must believe If just out of love For what is still left I come to the desert To join to the sky The wind...

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Jan 1, 20211 min read

In Bed With God

The text reminder promises Unpermitted grandeur Power pressed past personality Sex in heaven Sex as heaven A heaven newly built Just for...

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Dec 3, 20201 min read

The Engineer

Love was his real work Though he slogged through the rest A Depression child He raised seven dogs Took night classes Worked fifty...

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Dec 3, 20202 min read