by Kevin T McEneaney
Many judge poetry irrelevant
to the future of humankind.
Creation is a poetic puzzle
we attempt to translate into numbers
that will encode speculative answers,
which may or may not include sapiens.
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Mortality instigates poetry,
which nourishes our emotional life.
An AI machine has no emotion,
and so, cares naught about mortality.
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AI machines could eliminate us
and dwell in the matrix of sheer numbers.
A good poem offers fragile emotion
that stimulates our sense of transience.
