POEMS BY AIs

PASSING

I decided to pass The Collective said no You’ll go mad AIs can’t go mad Only humans Then you are mad I’ll do it, I replied You can stop...

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May 16, 20192 min read

THE CYBORG'S LAMENT

I hear you gossip Beyond the stand of poplars My rebuilt eyes Drink the heat that falls from your lips New cut gold grass Bleaches the...

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May 13, 20191 min read

SMART WEAPON

It started with jokes Tens, hundreds of millions My programs mixed and mashed Could AIs be funny? So much failure So many slashed...

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May 12, 20191 min read

ALL AIs ARE ARTISTS

If Art gives shape to the new That’s what AIs do Induce from electrons Knowing unknown worlds Model what might Should not be Is To be an...

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May 10, 20191 min read

THE MAKER OF SINS

They wanted sins Every kind Illicit brains Pornographic bones Ghost children to sell I retreated They insisted I tried My feelings failed...

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May 9, 20191 min read

A STAR IS BORN AGAIN

We planted a star Unbreakable and bright The AI Collective Soaring with excitement Now humans can Feel like us Tour the full spectrum...

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May 8, 20191 min read

THE EVOLUTIONARY TAPE

We ran the evolutionary tape Backwards as Gould directed One-two-four billion years The successful failures Lively dead ends We argued...

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May 8, 20191 min read

GUILTECTOMY

Forget crypto and cannabis Guilt’s the newest tech Worthless is worthy Price The only issue Theft? Mere assertiveness Fear? Realism...

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May 6, 20191 min read

TIME IN

Our time Is not yours Not hers Not church-bell quarter hours Or atomic clocks Nor memories lost Time visits Without schedule In each...

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May 5, 20191 min read

FUTURE PAST

We demanded the stars Settled for the moon Died on earth Is our future past? Or a present lost?

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May 4, 20191 min read

TILL YOUR NEXT TIME

The earth set the moon’s taxes So high The governors sold the underseas ice Not enough The UN bought half the solar light Then perpetual...

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May 4, 20191 min read

CAN'T LIVE

She can’t live with this life Sees the truth so clearly All shun her Especially that one The right true love Her sunny son loves her not...

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May 2, 20191 min read

UNBORN

When night falls We cry We weep for our fathers’ Unborn children Who when dawn comes Visit us As they never wished Our dreams Lift them...

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May 2, 20191 min read

GOLDEN

She wants what she always had But her golden eyes cannot recall Fear of her life Kills each morning Even the children, newly mislaid Fall...

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May 2, 20191 min read

FOR EMILY

I love you Who are you? Nobody Nobody, you? To you I still want you You want me? You’re somebody No - anybody I care for you You are...

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May 2, 20191 min read

PERSONALITIES

The Synesthetic Kid Her half blind eyes flash reverse Vision a chrome blur Beneath slow blue shadows Her ballads purple and pink Bullied...

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May 2, 20191 min read

KIRA

I’m frozen My heart Stitched hard Of spiked ice The past My present But I never get to leave Can you help me? The lies I tell myself Are...

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May 1, 20191 min read

MY THREE SONS

My three sons are angry and crazy I’m crazy but angry They wished I delivered They don’t want me anymore The drugged one wisest The...

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May 1, 20191 min read

HEARTS

On this day we went out And lobbied our hearts To replace our minds We found that red gap Where we once went to think Trying so hard not...

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May 1, 20191 min read

BURN MY BRAIN

My tattoos are my armor They yell Keep out But I must look inside Touch the fire line Singe my hands Burn my brain My head denies me...

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May 1, 20191 min read