‘Machine Learning’: A Poem in the Voice of a Chatbot, by Shaun C. Duncan
Machine Learning All algorithms, hypothetical Or otherwise, all organised behaviours Evoke responses antithetical— And thus the desperate ever doubt ...
Machine Learning All algorithms, hypothetical Or otherwise, all organised behaviours Evoke responses antithetical— And thus the desperate ever doubt ...
. Prefab Tabernacle They placed their prefab tabernacle there Between the supermarket and the gym And come each Sunday, clad ...
. Accidents Happen We’re told time tends toward catastrophe, And that a butterfly’s ephemeral wings Might quake the sky somewhere ...
. The Prestige of the Puppet-Master To be deceived must bring some satisfaction, For all are well aware of the ...
. The High Priest's Homily Once Man, in thrall to ignorance, believed the world was round, But now we know ...
. Watching My Children at Play in a Graveyard Laughing, the children slip between the stones Laid out in rows ...
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. The Life of the Party The commissar, in his most common clothes, Patrols the margins of their conversations, And ...
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. An Aging Senator Returns to the Capitol Confused and more than half-way gone to Hell, They wheel her in ...
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. The Glass Delusion of King Charles VI of France ‘His malady grew worse every day until his mind was ...
. Elegy for an Unremarkable Man Poor Niel is dead. He’d been off sick since May. Cancer, they said, as ...
. Sunday Morning While the World Burns Another something, somewhere, every day Perturbs the practised calm of her routine. Those ...
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. After Observing the Working Methods of a Very Important Artist The aging fool stands deep in dirty water, Cradling ...
. Australia in 2022 written on the eve of a federal election where everything is at stake but nothing is ...
. Jeffrey Epstein in His Cell On nights like this a lesser man might pray; Instead he dreams of islands ...
. The Short-Lived Triumph of the Junior School's Health & Safety Officer The children wait in line to sanitize Their ...
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. The H.R. Manager's Toilet Break At ten-fifteen he sits upon His porcelain panopticon And stares into his tiny screen. ...
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Great topic, brilliantly Susanistically explored. Always a joy!
Susan, This is oh so much the type of poem that I like. Well done! Mark
Joe, you make a very important point. For years the general public has been propagandized and taken full advantage of…
Susan, a major study has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that only 10% of all human generated CO2…
Where would poetry be without a smidgen of sarcasm, cynicism, and tongue-twisting torment, Margaret? It pleases me to think of…
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