Automaton
I am built to go through motions.
(built organically, destruction tested
across dozens of millennia and more.
I contain within me networks
of indescribable complexity,
relays and feedback loops. They
equip me to monitor the world I survey,
analyse all that my receptors respond to,
and minimise the lag
between stimulus and gratification.
Bit and spur, they goad me toward
survival, piloted all the while
by subroutines of skill and guile.)
“I” is my guiding fiction. My sense of “me”
is the necessary fiction, written
into every cell. Those urgent messages
imply a “you” to recognise, another
that will appear to be as
self determined, as spontaneous, as me.
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It raises some great thought.
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"I wonder what chickens would think
of fake bananas."
(Timmy Russell)
That doesn't make sense, does it? ^-^;;
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I passed by the window, and marked with one eye,
How the owl and the panther were sharing a pie.
The panther took pie crust, gravy and meat,
While the owl took the dish as his share of the treat.
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There's always a better poem just out of reach.
Words create situations [link]
The roots of the future run deep [link]
You've probably noticed that this piece too relates to how the notion of freedom might be understood.
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There's always a better poem just out of reach.
Words create situations [link]
The roots of the future run deep [link]
You can enjoy the sound patterns and images of a poem, without needing understand fully what the poem has to say?
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There's always a better poem just out of reach.
Words create situations [link]
The roots of the future run deep [link]
My sense of “me”
is the necessary fiction, written
into every cell
those lines show the talent in you that I envy.
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Dum spiro spero.
"You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants."
your comments are very generous, and very much appreciated.
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There's always a better poem just out of reach.
Words create situations [link]
The roots of the future run deep [link]
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