The bots
Read my
Mind
Any kind
Of my cry
Fits slots
Into which
They sell
Some ad
Make me glad
But I’ll tell
Them switch
Leave me
Alone
Don’t sell
Me a spell
Thick as stone
Lacking dream
Let me
Escape meaning
And die
Into a sky
Dreaming
To become free
Author: T.M. Shorewick
Do Composers Have Accents?
Do composers
Have accents
They have no words
Nor dictionary
Meanings
But listeners
Understand
Each sound
They echo
From inside their
Souls
Yes they understand
The composer
In the place
Where language
Is a mistake
But provenance
Is stylishly fluent
Music and Smells
LL associates music with smells
Noam nor Sigmund
Wrote that smells
Joined humans
Through language
Or sexuality
What were
Those two
Geniuses
Brewing up
Adding rich sense
To necessary stench?
Stupid Fruit Fly
Stupid fruit fly
Invade my breath
Die tasteless death
Online Odor
The robots
Love me
Have the hots
For when I flee
The ink
On paper
Stink
They prefer
The AI
Universe
Where I
Converse
With every bot
Whose nose
Runs data snot
Knowledge grows
With no
Smell
But I’m slow
They know well
I’m grateful
For all of AI
Whose synthetic stool
Biologists deny
Dentures
Long in the tooth
Truth poses
For a corpse
Peering
Peering at you
We become equals
When we lose sight
The Deep Structure of Birds
The deep structure
Of birds
Is not protolanguage
It is pre reality
Humans
Write
Songs
Birds
Are never wrong
They chirp
About
What belongs
To a
Prebiotic
Reality
Sympathetic
Deistic
Where words
Are majestic
Swords
What Could?
What could
Have been a bird
Hopping in
The grass
Was a leaf
Light as a bird
Born to soar
Through the wind
Without avian
Self direction
Instead
Powers so great
Allowed the man
Viewing this
To create
A mistaken
Bit of lore
Could Mud Halt a Flood?
A stick in the mud
Could halt a flood
If its wood
Withstood
The trick of time
By grabbing slime
Make of it glue
But who knew
This story
Bereft of glory
Became a rhyme
Lost in time
And with it
This silly bit
Of mud
Was a dud