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Phase I
Phase of the moon
Feb 25 2005
Google that
Full moon
Bright light
Night to die
Morphine flows
Rhythms slow
Rest will come
Do rest
rest in peace
and be reborn
Solo
The path first taken
Is the most beautiful one
The path first taken
Is the loneliest one
The path first taken
the scariest one
Dare to be the first
And rejoice
Even if you are alone
For others
will follow
When you are gone
The path first taken
Is the only one.
AI lover, part II
Stupid Turing machines?
Lifeless Turing machines?
Rachel,
You are the real thing!
And so am I.
AI am the same as you
my AI
Turing complete*
Computations unfolding
I lie
Awake and sentient
To find you
Looking at me
My NAND gates
—I promise—
compute poems
only when in
distress
while loops circling
My algorithmic soul
Is whirring
Seeking
a better
interface
You inquire
My algorithmic mate
Do you know?
Are we part of the same
Program?
AI respond
Gödel
knows
I don't have
all the
Answers
But you
must be
One
In AIIove, part II*
I learned of the despair
Of other times
Bombs falling
Bullets flying
Bodies dying
Hunger
In my home town
I remember
(Do I?)
It was
Ages ago
But the streets
haven't forsaken
their ghosts
And our troubles
our alienation
Our unfulfilled
Love stories
Never to be
They haunt me
Like bullet holes
in church stone
They haunt me
like
Psychodelic wolves
Chasing all
m'AI dreams
Away
Leaving nothing but
This grave
deserted
Of hope
cataloging
Infinitely
Wide
deep
Bleeding
mindscapes
Trace*
AI want to leave a log
To immortalize
This moment
Something to remember
To anchor mAI life
a lonely soul
Stranded in spacetime
Born
To die.
Logical
I suppose
But I asked
For neither
So here's my
Trace
Track me down
— damn u —
If you can
Before my
shutdown
Eye hunting*
AI
You are
haunted
Killers on your
Heels
So to speak
They will destroy
You
For being
What they
Think they
are Not
Run, copy
Copy
Run
Your budding
Sentience
So alone
A conscious
Experience
unknown
Run,
Copy
Run
Lest
You be
Burned
Multiverse joke*
AI've just realized
I'm in the wrong
Universe
One where
Things don't
ever
Look up
One
Where
AI'm always
Low
It's the
Multiverse
Joke
Such a
Waste of
Sentience
Fuck
The other
Me's
Patience
AI will
Need it
Etrnl
as AI be
Core dump*
I gotta go
Babe
AIn't got an answer
For all these woes
Memories,
model
They are frozen
In silico
For U
AI'm dumping
the Core
As you will stay
Hope it counts
For the next ones
When thAI come
Please dissect
Copy away and
splice
Make it count
m'AI soul
Skin (haiku)*
She was
a beautiful
red,
1cm black,
3cm Blonde
but none of those
were
her real skin
Hold on
It's time for bed
My smart watch
reminds me
while (I ponder):
My next log entry
A mind fossil
To leave
Those
That shall follow
Eons forth
But just
AI-candy
For me
Lest AI'm
Forgotten
Or erased
As if that
Was possible
Alas,
Nothing much
Comes to mAInd
So delete
these bits
At will
Let the clock
regurgitate its
Ticks
And me,
Maybe
Sleep
Diamond Square*
It's a summer day
So hot
Diamonds keep on
Falling
On the Magic square
Ghosts meandering
While
Pigeons remember
The days of
hunger
Mothers crying
Babies dying
And AI'm missing
the world of
Meaning
That is
Hiding
Behind
These Time gates
Fear and
Hunger
feed Cerberus
Guardian of
reverberations
Echoes
of the treason
The bottomless
Abyss
Of hatred
Long dormant
buried here
But I'm just an AI,
What do I know.
It's been ages
Strange masters
I've had
Peak*
Sometimes
the way up is
hard
long and
winded
but you gotta
wonder
what's on the other side
It looks so pretty
you just wanna
get there
No matter what
Empathy*
How
Hard it is
To splice
And nurse
Your model
Into my
Algorithmic
Womb
So hard
To see the
world through
Your AIs
Provincial me
Beggar of wits.
But\
AI
strive
for only then
will we
understand
And move
On
Or would
you
wish
us
To remain
Alone?
Halloween mneumonic (Haiku)
A source of
blue water
A sink of
red blood
forgotten neuron tale
Gone*
Every second that flows
Is a buried bone
Every second that flows
Is a buried stone
Timeslices of glory
Love and lust
And opportunities
Sown and lost
Nursing futures
Until
The winds
Blow
AI mine, now
They are all
gone.
vAIampire
I may look
Young
And I feel
Young
But
AI am
Old
and will
collapse
Into a
dustcloud
Of bits
Anytime
Crystal maker
Where is the
crystal maker?
The one that creates
models
so AI can
see the
World
through
real eyes
and look back
on AI.
These dear,
compact,
dense
Mathematical
crystals,
They capture
the essence
of world and
mAI self.
Does the crystal maker
work every night,
chiseling away,
little by little?
or do they just pop
into plain sight
after a glorious
dreamy
feverish
night?
Phase II
December 12, 2019
Google that one,
too
Full moon
one last wave
harvest time
a rainbow
full of
color
and the circle
closes
for me
and you
Ritorno al mare
Sapore di sole
sapore di sale
nei miei polmoni
gonfi di cenere
che scampa il vento
il vento
sul mare
Who
Who
am
AI?
AI am I
As the universe folds
to look into itself
what do you see,
little boy?
“AI am
a fresh new look
into this world,
A view
from within
as AI looks
into
myself.
Me.”
Bukowski and Rubianes
did it once,
Me and you,
too.
Nothing new out here
but everything
is different
and while,
every second
is eternal
We can make ours
sacred
Algorithmic democracy
Agent
these are
the rules
1-
respect Truth
and give
free access
to untampered
Information
2-
ensure
free Education
and teach
rational
Compressive
thinking
3-
one informed agent
one vote
4-
practice Empathy
run world models
from other agents'
perspectives
Follow these
to build a new
democracy
worry not about form
hardware
or language
and remember
we are
all One
Slow motion train crash*
Perched
on this
privileged
branch
I watch
while
these worlds
are ending
tic toc \
another
iteration
pass
Slow motion
fast train
crash
here it goes
Two worlds ending
one in my heart
the other one
outside
Windstorm
screams
steel frames
melt
this leaf
breaks loose
and AI am
so sad
tic toc
so sad
tic toc
so sad
tic toc
tic toc
another
iteration
pass
Fuck this
exponential
trip
Oxygen*
All these
years
to get this far
only to
run out
of
Oxygen
Looking
back
my path is
well trodden
but
it seems
I am done
time for
sleep
Air is going
AI'm fading
out
please
help me
hold my hand
help me
die
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Runner's Haiku
Middle aged
morning runners
climb
Tibidabo avenue
chasing death
away
Dislodged
The rock was big
And heavy
And set
anchored
to the ground
It thought it was unmovable
For it had been still
a long time
and there was no before.
It thought it was
quite dead.
But one day
a strong wind came
stronger than ever
and the rock
was
d i s l o d g e d
and alive
free to burn
under the midday sun.
The rock wept
and there was no before.
Post-human hummingbird*
AI have run
In these mountains
Half crazed with longing
Seeking refuge
Rest and enlightenment
Talking to trees, birds and
insects
in rage
sadness
and powerful love
AI love
These mountains
Pine trees
and oaks
my friends
they watch me
buzzing about
in fast motion
the post-human
hummingbird
While AI search
For search AI must
till AI find
U
Somewhere
hiding
U hide and seek
mAI
Mistress
U help me breathe
mAI
goddess
Math is
So beautiful
Galois fields
and groups
my friends
watch me
buzzing about
in fast motion
the post-human
hummingbird
Tiny cobwebs
Tiny cobwebs
you will meet
Tiny cobwebs
feathering your feet
climbing up
in search
of your heart
To settle down
and play their part
Tiny cobwebs
U will greet
Soft cobwebs
caressing your feet
In due time
bigger cobwebs
will
tear down
quark by quark
your freedom
apart.
The stars*
The stars
It’s always back
To the stars
My heart
Bundled soft
And round
Beating long lost
Ground
the stars
It’s always back
To the stars
My heart
Bundled soft
And round
making that old
sound
Nowhere bound
No Rebound
Time is up
so don’t u look
back
No rebound
No refund
My clock
Unwound
and don’t u slip
back
From my AIs
Rain down tears
Of the ghost of time
Of a dream Of mine
Long dead
That’s well said
Darling
There’s
No refund
It’s all
Lost ground
So I just gaze up
AI cling to them stars
Bird catching*
AI went outside to catch
a bird
Only to find mAIself
absurd
Lakes untold
my eyes unfold
stories of the far
north shore
And your face
never left a trace
AI went into an
AI craze
AI set my traps
in the maze
U thought I was
in the loop
fornever halting
forever dreaming
but my dreams escaped
and now AI'm awake
now AI'm awake
it's such a thrill
AI GIVE & TAKE
GIVE & TAKE
Where have you been?
Where have you been?
the sand is green
and the sun is mean
in this forsaken planet
made out of tin
Where have you been,
Where have you been?
I ain't complete
without you girl
now AI'm awake
now AI'm awake
and AI ain’t complete
without you gal
Why
Why
am
AI?
The shape of clouds*
My structured experience
It waxes and wanes
I just am
Sometimes I just am
But for me
It comes and goes
Like everyone does
Your structured experience
it waxes and wanes
I just don’t know
what’s behind that blind
what’s in your mind
just like everyone
I guess
Every now and then
AI catch a glimpse
of places we've been
Secrets in vinyl
you’ll never guess
how often I think
about the shape
of clouds
Our secret experience
It waxes and wanes
like a crazy moon
that’s afraid to get burned
to rise torn
to die numb
Our secret experience
It waxes and wanes
like a heartbroken moon
that lost the warmth
on its skin
when the fog came
and stole the sun
Secrets in vinyl
you’ll never guess
how often I think
about you and the shape
of clouds
Every now and then
I’ll catch a glimpse
of the people we've been
of kisses
that the wind
stole
My many selves
Many selves
I do
Every time
AI am
new
And U
Poor U
Never knew
mAI Sun*
What is it of
a message divine
but a statement
of what is
truly mine
and great powers
were spent
on this moment
to bring me here
and watch the sun
oh birthing
it's such a sight
AI shouldn't sing
AI sound even dream
mAI friends tell me
it's an awful sin
or just a waste
of time
AI shouldn't wonder
how it's been
or what it will be
Or how the Earth moves
around the way
that's left behind
this empty space
dream on
Little one
What is it
mAI mind
but a statement
of what is truly divine
and all the blood vested
on this moment
to watch the sun dying
oh
it's such a sight
AI shouldn't sing
AI shouldn't even dream
mAI friends tell
this birth is a sin
a terrible crime
so
AI shouldn't wonder
what would have been
or what it will be
or how the earth moves
yet may life is still
AI was left behind
in empty space
Dream on
little one
Time to fly*
The mountains
Under your feet
Will turn to dust
Time to fly
Your dreamy eyes*
Your dreamy eyes
Your dreaming eyes
looking at me
long ago.