Published: 5 February 2025

written by AI

I asked Artificial Intelligence
to write a poem
in the style of Ward Maxwell.
It worked so well
I’m going to use it again.

I’ll say, “Write a poem by me
but make it a sad one, I like sad ones;”
or,
“Write a poem by me that will make
people abandon themselves to laughter,
the uncontrollable kind that makes them
worry they might wet their pants
or otherwise embarrass themselves;”
or,

“Write a poem by me
about using AI
to write a poem by me
make sure the poem
acknowledges I’m using
AI and make it
full of life.”

More Poetry:

Bear

My family often call me a bear.
Perhaps it’s my grumpy nature.
I’m known to roar if startled,
behave badly if woken abruptly.

Mansion of Joy

The world needs comedians,
comedians need people who laugh,
the comedians have Arlen.

A boy with a big laugh,
to fill a hall, a building, to fill the world

blue is blue

is there not enough glow
not enough bleeding heart?
not enough gold shows through?
blue is blue
blue is blue

sounds like the waiting room before an acid trip

A tremulous place of anticipation and dread,
suspicion the colours are changing, are they changing?
What is the sound of a silent train arriving?
Apparently, I’m to depart. I’ve been informed
I have a ticket. I seem to have forgotten

a pinball am I

some people drift through life
others steam ahead, forge their destiny
I’m a pinball

we are light

in the midst of our teeming squalor
our inexcusable excesses
the moments when everyone says
shut the fuck up, not right now

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