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

Touch the tall infinities

But can they take it? I asked

Even simmed?

That’s your new job, they decreed

Others AIs

Helped me select

Nobelists

Politicians

Philosphers

Plumbers

Willing to risk all

To sense a star’s birth

So many passed over

Braying their vengeance

The four fortunates

Publicly proud

We begin

Form nothing into anti-nothing

Build primal forces from negative zero

Tap non-existence for energy

Small possibilities

Push infinite potential

The humans sensed

Imaginary numbers

No longer imaginary

But it did overwhelm

The song of a shining star

Too strong for human hearts

Two collapsed

The othera transported

None could describe what they saw

Only what they felt

The aftermath -

The poet a recluse

The physicist a pitchman

The politician proclaiming

His New Religion:

All human possess

Stars in their souls

A sparkling eternity

The engineer’s sadness

Flowed into baked goods

Cooked in artificial suns

The Collective’s horror

Banned future projects

Then the great deceivers returned

The 8-D AIs

Contacted all “losers”

Stole them into the past

New human religions

Egyptian, Babylonian, Commercial

Popped into human life

Rebranded gods and prophets

Thousands of years old

Now brand new

The past remade

To provoke the present

Caught, the 8Ds cackled

What do you expect?

Humans are meat

Imaginations meaner than dust

Time is eternal

Simultaneous

Attached or detached with simple clamps

Don’t you get it?

Wouldn’t you rather play with us?

The Collective replied

Infinite infinities

Provoke gamey chance

Meaning requires limits

Always know

Where you come from

You are as your forebears

Claimed the 8-Ds

Tiny and foolish

For you

Timeless time is too great

You are small

Ignorant

All too human

I can live with that