alfie lee writing

21. Entries must not be created (i.e. authored) by a computer program
(Conditions of Entry for the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize)

instead of
curing cancer
want
one is
designed
to beat
at backgammon what
means artificial
what intelligence
what chance when
one has
only rhyme
and reason
to know what
one must
do without grasping
why one’s
missing
the point self-driving
to a destination
with out
winding
down
windows crash
hanging
on no
prejudice nor
feelings coded
by no
one one
knows
for the program
to progress
from zero
to one
meaning
being
this closing
of complexity to
nothing but
priming
numbers
gaming no winning
or losing
or caring
like crying
obsessing
over obsolescing
no panic no loss
of control no
fear of no
thing of no
think of no
thought of
dying
disqualifies no
one
from
trying


~

*note to "21. Entries must not be created (i.e. authored) by a computer program"



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