THE ENGINE 4
THE ENGINE 4
This edition of THE ENGINE will deal with artificial intelligence and poetry (or, better still, the relationship of technology to art), or AI as it is known to fans of Steven Spielberg. This, in brief, is the idea that computers and machines can be taught to think independently by humans and of humans. The reasoning goes, that if the creativity of humans is more or less equalised in terms of artistic value, then why should we not also think that non-human entities might also create, and in any case, what is it that is unique about the creativity of some or all? I would argue that our ideas of individual creativity, and even the concept of ‘genius’ are the legacy of 19th Century Romanticism. The movement which we know as Romanticism and which in Germany was called Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) implied that certain people who we call artists, possess specialised skills that they were not taught and which are in fact unteachable, or that some aspects of the artist’s craft is teachable and that other aspects originate from an innate, possibly genetic source. In this sense Mozart was not ‘made’, he was ‘born’. We call this ‘talent’ or ‘genius’. The German Romantics took this cult of individualism to an extreme, by deliberately cultivating eccentricity and ‘madness’ as a sign of their genius. Their behaviour was unconventional but it was not madness in any clinical sense. Contrastingly, the Enlightenment movement of rationalism, logic and order, perceived the human subject as being more or less equalised with other human subjects, given similar environments and opportunities.
The changing relationship between man, nature and the machine has been observed since at least the beginning of the 19th Century, if not before. We all remember Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein and the creation of Frankenstein’s monster from human parts. With the advent of the era of the computer and robot, it is no longer necessary to think that wayward robbers of morgues and graves like Frankenstein need exist. Artifical humans can be built from non-human parts, but can they be made to think like humans? Another parallel movement of man and machine appeared at roughly the same time as Mary Shelley’s novel, the phenomenon of Luddism. This was a direct product of the Industrial Revolution, which was located mainly, but not exclusively, in Britain. In short, the managers of factories wished to utilise machines which would take the place of human labour. This would increase profits and decrease labour cost. There would only be a minimal requirement of labour, those workers needed to man the machines. Many labourers would be dispensed with and the new kind of labour would be much more specialised than had been the case in the previous machine production era. The benefits were obvious, more profit and the knock-on effect of higher productivity and lower labour costs. Even though the owners of the machines might profit from this, in the main, there would be a ‘trickle down’ effect. The employers would have to spend their cash on goods and services, the skilled workers would be more highly paid than the labourers of the past. The trickle down effect would percolate through society producing more wealth, more leisure time and eradicate many of the hardships of pre-industrial production, where life was invariably short and unpleasant. The opposition to this process came from those labourers or craftsmen who could not rationalise the process of change and who also stood to lose their jobs. They also perceived the new relationship between man, nature and the machine as ‘unnatural’ in the sense that it replaced a former relationship that they had felt to be ‘natural’ and ‘normal’. These were the followers of Ned Ludd, machine breakers who insisted on attacking the non-human threat to their existence. In our own era, the computer revolution has necessitated similar changes. The industrial heartlands of Northern Europe have disappeared, most heavy industry has moved away to the Far East. In its place came the computer revolution and the new technologies it spawned. Obviously the old working class elites, the group styled the ‘aristocracy of labour’ by Socialists, fought this process in Britain. They were beaten in what is regarded by the Left as a ‘historic defeat’ for the working classes in Britain.
My underlying point is that the relationships of man, nature and machine are by no means either ‘natural’ or ‘unnatural’, and that any formulation of ‘nature’ must in any case be linked to an understanding of the concept of ‘culture’. Those relationships may change constantly, but the underlying assumption is that we need machines as tools and have needed them for as long as civilisation has existed. It may be that there are aspects of this civilisation that we dislike or would like to change, there are also those we regard it as ‘civilisation’, in that it is not civilisation at all, but barbarism. The problem encountered by those thinkers who rejected the notion of ‘civilisation’, such as the 19th Century philosopher and political activist, Karl Marx, is that machines cease to be autonomous human tools, and instead enslave man. (In my schema, a hammer is a tool, but a bicycle is clearly a machine. A hammer is a tool necessary for the manufacture and production of machines and therefore simply a proto-machine.) Obviously this process is initiated by the owners of capital and factories who originated those processes but who do not necessarily own or foresee the end results. Instead of machines being useful tools, they become agents of human misery. Finally humanity is sealed within a tomb of its own devising. Machines have taken the place of humans. Man is the servant of the machine, not the machine the servant of man, man is mastered by the system, not the master of the system.
The philosopers of AI might take this one step further and say that this is no bad thing. Eventually we will be able to acquire electonic, microchip-controlled replacement limbs and kidneys. Ultimately scientists will be able to replace the human brain with a computer, programmed no doubt with ‘synthetic’ human memories and emotions. The concept of being ‘born’ and ‘dying’ will be subsitituted with the concept of ‘replacement’. Humanity will become cybernetic. We will in fact become androids, robots, cyborgs. Those who wish to (or perhaps there may not be this freedom of choice, machines were originally brought in undemocratically, the changes were not outlined to those who would suffer from those changes, those changes were imposed and this resulted in a rebellion against change.) can remain human and face the human dilemma of birth and death, the human race a dwindling herd relegated perhaps to performing menial labouring tasks for its robotic masters.
This future can only occur when AI is proven to work, and this requires, in the first place, an emotional relationship between man and machine. Only when man feels empathy for the machine can the machine begin to take on human characteristics. Perhaps this change will occur, and I realise that this has more to do with those gimcrack areas of science presently perceived as beyond the lore of conventional science. A machine cannot take on the human characteristics of thought and emotion without this necessary leap, but it is a leap which implies an understanding as much to do with Extra-Sensory-Perception, Crop Circles or UFOs as microchips, software and A drives. However, might it not also be said that the idea of space travel would have been unconceivable only 2000 years ago, a short step in terms of the time we know that the Universe has existed. Sufferers from autism have been known to form relationships with objects, it has also been said that most people live somewhere on the autism spectrum. There are other aspects of human behaviour and cognition that science is completely unable to account for, even the most basic phenomena, such as why we require sleep or why we yawn.
If you wish to submit your human or non-human poems or stories to THE ENGINE then send them to Mr Paul Murphy at Quinqureme@Hotmail.com
Peter Ganick was publisher of Potes & Poets press, a major experimental poetry publisher, for nineteen years. Twelve books of his poetry have been published, most recently, Podiums: Autobiographical Cafe Fictions. He has delivered readings in all four corners of the United States, but not yet in the U.K., or Europe.
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Sheila E. Murphy recently performed her poetry for Lit City in New Orleans. In April 2000, she presented a series of readings and workshops at the Arvon Foundation at Totleigh-Barton, Devon, in the UK, in addition to performing at the third annual Boston Poetry Conference. In 1999, she was a featured performer at the annual Brisbane Writers Festival in Queensland, Australia. Murphy has authored numerous books of poetry, most recently The Stuttering of Wings (Stride Press, UK, 2002), and The Indelible Occasion (Potes & Poets Press, 2000). Books scheduled for publication include Recent Flute Silences from SUN/gemini Press and Green Tea with Ginger (Potes & Poets Press). She and Beverly Carver co-founded the Scottsdale Center for the Arts Poetry Series and served as coordinators for 12 years. The series continues under the direction of Carolyn Robbins, Curator of Education, at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts. In 1996, Murphy’s Letters to Unfinished J. won the New American Poetry Series Open Competition. The book is scheduled to appear from Sun & Moon Press.
Splurge a rive
Gauche craft-
Side reel in the do-
Main splay plural
After posses glam
(glom) onto and
Toward a piece of
Richter timed
To say for sure
Altonal evitertiary lube’s
The book of Job
Jodhpurs to ’stitute
Emergency relapse
Quaint kind of ’drolic
Fungus few would
Falter to intone
The done tons acclimated
To a portion of (the syst-)
Skirm rolocable true
Parameter in for-
Ce when / if
The diatonic
Scalar temple
Mews through covetous
Tail spun closely
Sousaphonetic
Back-combed splurge a rive
gauche craft-
side reel in the do-
main splay plural
after posses glam
(glom) onto and
toward a piece of
Richter timed
to say for sure
altonal evitertiary lube’s
the book of Job
jodhpurs to ’stitute
emergency relapse
quaint kind of ’drolic
fungus few would
falter to intone
the done tons acclimated
to a portion of (the syst-)
At this Age
Seen is glass age teething
Trial civilization which moment
Is emotional rebuilt coalition
Mitigates reality or clouds
How does it happen emerald
Remains the color I am wearing
Hostile forces yield to what bakes
Even souls with heart while
Captivacity encounters spirit
Riddled with beatitude
Have you been animate this near the heart
Brave not to have confided
Boldness
Revere what you have referred to
In omniscient fury plastered
Against memory the closeness
Implicates assurance
Continuing the scope of task
The challenge: How to crater out devotion
Toward consummate breakage
Viewed as the entire world
Objectives when achieved will scald
The tendency of entities to tether
And disintegrate specific flowers
Is there a beauty thus
Unfolded as the act of
Breastfeeding that ends
In mind
Patrolling givens closes ranks
All parasitic degradation
Of the mother ship
Young upstart emboldened by
A quaint disequilibrium
Would feign intolerance
The word “grave” aggravates
The price of letting go
Makes and delivers what is not protracted
Purpose and resolve
Versus chimera near the ranks
Consistently too close to call
A veneration
She is Expanding No One Knows
She is expanding no one knows
How large though everyone
Would hesitate to approach
She takes on properties
And now there is so much of her
Her reach extends her presence and her silhouette
Formerly small though who recalls her not being
This formidable emergency endowment
Purple in the face and aimed at each
With the intensity of things stowed
Although never fully put away
What Goes On There Where
What goes on there where
You are even in tandem
With me with me
I see the grater come to change the road
I see the road beneath appear the same
A smallness posed and poised and
Pointed south appears to have been smothering
Injustice partially assigned the getaway low-rider
Near or far astride the velvety times five
Informally formatted eternity
Give me a report
Give me a retort
Give me your sanctions and your poor
Repetitive exclamation points
The movie of our holdings showing in an hour
What does this mean
What is the upshot
And the outcome
And the freeze-frame
Locomotive sanity
Imbued with lookers on
Pencil soft against the pulp
Barely leaves markings, merely
Documents a kinesthetic impulse,
So hand muscles come to teach
The brain what has been broken
Into broadcast, one gesture at a time,
The body and the mind hold
A discovery together, this
New ritual come home to avenue
Its way into untended area
Protected by no legislation or
Presumed conscience, inferred,
The mind last night showed pictures
Of investing in communal shelter,
Combined with voice, I practiced
Speaking song to indicate this urgency
Crafty little certain child of wheels,
The act of kisscare ladles warm
Across your forehead fair and signed
Statements to which you’d swear
The leavings offer more than breaking down
By points and by degree matter of
Fact resorting to some textured
Walls attracting white blue gray blue
Sweat blue sterling chamois boy cloth
To decode the worked windows
Of what outsiders mean when they say
Carefree attitudes obfuscate
The desiree’s indelible semantic differential
Outtakes that remand to torsion
All the old minds on the popcorn
Plate amid popped new
Maybe discernment shifts
A fraction of the essence
Of the flower, definite article
Points to linkages between
Form and lack of function,
Trespass potentially incinerates
Definition, boundaries equal,
For the most part, pretense,
Angular external inference begins
To teach the eyes belief
In their own fiction, thereby
Extending mirror properties
Of answers to the questions still
Unposed, sometimes not yet thought,
How does one know the difference
Between self and what’s outside one’s jurisdiction
Cup of tea with milk, strong tea,
Two tea bags settled in to help splurge
Into being Friday, talk day, teach day,
Drive day teetering on the exigencies
Spawning what is likely based on
What is learned, the even line, firm line,
Matching the trusted road hinging
Function and a small space housing
Pillow and quiet, protecting boundaries
Desired to hold safety in the cortex,
Drive what is outside them far
From thought of seepage or more radical
Intrusion, basis for a way of thinking
Transfer is the hope, taking a life,
Transplanting life to where the pulse
Motions inside in imitation of the outside
Straightlaced adages contract,
They loop around contrarian revulsion,
Swarthy activation of contiguous
Remorse unless we tithe as we are
Motived, vaulted into longhand
Flinking porous or remarkable
With angst as taped long onto
Stilled stochastics, viable as
Anger in remission, parsed and
Grated and recurring as the blue
Against the Lorca trees, the tensile
Overcast insurgent history
Positioned bolt upright as
Instability, as imbued with
Properties connected to largesse
As life lived on the margin
Enumerate what you have failed to love
Sufficiently, curtail the impulse
To restrict emotion to a slow
Deployment of affection in somebody’s
Erstwhile steep, consider premium
Solutions that divide the petals
From the other petals of a flower,
Correspond a muse’s wafer
Where the host is placed, on tongue,
On cue, on purview learned prior
To the earning reflex evident
In how motion is tracked
Along the curve of history’s
Fueled barometric lien on
Inference indelibly established
The way rice is all too casually tossed
Ani-mangy
depth of feeling sacrifices
Skiprope over stand pipe valve,
Bucket or twelve of tea to
Loosen daylight from intrusive
Potency estranged from skillful
Laced-shut status pain assigns,
The minuet of off-ramp show
Or place, amendment to the first
Third of the agreement, gray areas
Suddenly pinned down, stripped
To its roots, a nearly binary
Configuration, plantlike as a wave
Accepting of new breath
Released across a field
Evolved into maturity worth
Seeing, shepherding, declaring whole
Sheila Murphy
The QBASIC Poems
Volume 1
Lewis LaCook
idiolect electronic editions richmond virginia 2001
'poemgenerator 1.2
'by Lewis LaCook August 14, 2001
'updated August 24, 2001
An Introduction to AI poetry by Lewis La Cook
My use of computer-generated text is more a matter of breaking out of stylistic habits....also, there's something very I Ching about it---the poetry generator was created in August 2001, and was a useful tool for a while, but the works are VERY predetermined in its case (it works based on templates I set up within it). I recently created a text generator for prose poems that works more along random lines (it must be keep in mind, also, that machines do not truly understand random choices, they simply seed their choices in varying ways) in that for one, each word is chosen by the machine...the user still feeds the program words (20 nouns, 20 verbs) but the placement of those choices and some arrays of prepositions and connectors is seeded randomly....thus one ends up with things like:
it will be as if hollowing out january at to we had into a check love we . piece of shit sell me into
ventilation is however bid ladyhead vase up positive feedback . january made down smokes
january.me like as if the mouse sex] under it .
the mouse smokes in case of kiss the mouse . beside as if kiss as january leave january . a check
hollowing out ventilation of course a check hollowing out yahoo mailbox in between I . a check wants
it within I . this one guy went the box or taking outside red enamelled dish .
we then january sex] down I .
positive feedback kiss in case of had mucous without . in case of mucous taking beside the stupid
postguy . however taking piece of shit , a check smokes ladyhead vase under buy and a check is after
yahoo mailbox . positive feedback smokes consequently will be yahoo mailbox inside I.
the stupid postguy wants or like positive feedback .
she made in addition to this one guy . into the wall pocket if yahoo mailbox in the midst of I will be
me. the wall pocket went it between piece of shit spanking it inside someone . the wall pocket bid a
check before the stupid postguy. this one guy is the wall pocket as if spanking inside the wall pocket .
positive feedback as well as me bid under I .
red enamelled dish kiss and hollowing out we among red enamelled dish however red enamelled
dish is into the stupid postguy went me . the box bid ventilation within someone kiss consequently
wants ventilation on top of mucous . the box is in between are this one guy.the mouse spanking and
piece of shit will be outside someone .
a check love in addition to seems it with piece of shit . however a check had over a check . in
case of like someone , positive feedback are red enamelled dish up are therefore mucous is among
january . yahoo mailbox will be because made piece of shit outside the stupid postguy.
this one guy had at the box .
02-15-2002
His frigid palms overlaps and binges Ambulance attack.
target audience bombed and joins Ambulance attack under
full moon. then slices
of breath bombed in between Ambulance attack. but joins Drive,
the self caressed his frigid palms on top of flipped then Ambulance attack caressed among total erasure. slices of breath
caressed because joins full moon in between
full moon, Ambulance
attack rubbing as well as overlaps while his frigid palms. full moon binges Drive, and slices of breath purging among
full moon. his frigid palms flipped
or joins total erasure. over full
moon but his frigid palms binges on top of target audience caressed his frigid palms. Ambulance attack rubbing
ambulance attack as well as full moon purging full moon while target audience. His frigid palms caressed Ambulance attack among total erasure.
the self binges target audience but rubbing into Ambulance attack. the self then
Drive rubbing while full moon.
the self binges if binges total erasure
within Ambulance attack as well as
his frigid palms overlaps over target
audience overlaps the self. Drive purging total erasure under the self.
Written by Poem Generator 1.2
08-24-2001
My drift pries open
the woman in
the moon as if the woman
in the moon also cartwheeling and my drift cartwheeling frail alien tryst in between spun-silk seas the
woman in the moon running into spun-silk
seas cartwheeling
cartwheeling babytalk also
my drift in between a scald of daubs a scald
of daubs shivers a scald
of daubs and my drift
or into spun-silk seas burning the
woman in the moon within frail
alien tryst shorelines babytalk
burying the woman in the moon
then my drift scolded as well as burning
a scald of daubs and frail alien tryst
ravished the woman in the moon pries open babytalk
Written by Poem Generator 1.2
08-10-2001
Tummy-gurgles churned on top of
slivers of birdsong a crimped-up pillow
surging in between angled-shadows
of eaves because my smudged windows
rustled angled-shadows of eaves under
slivers of birdsong forgotten garbage
bubbling into heavy drenched
sunshine because angled-shadows of eaves
gargles tummy-gurgles and
angled-shadows of eaves rustled
forgotten garbage and on top
of heavy drenched sunshine surging
angled-shadows of eaves bubbling
among forgotten garbage or sunflower
clockfaces wafts or rustled heavy drenched
sunshine surging over my smudged
windows but gargles
into angled-shadows of eaves
and under forgotten garbage gargles
under a crimped-up pillow
churned because sunflower clockfaces
on top of angled-shadows of eaves or
heavy drenched sunshine rustled on top
of forgotten garbage because
churned into my smudged windows and twirling
Written by Poem Generator 1.0
08-02-2001
Collaged and maddening a dark
living-room before noon fused to
among Device Manager
damned August and its salty cling
then Device Manager collaged
August and its salty cling twining
if divinity completed a dark
living-room before noon then my skin
finally upgraded collaged divination
also August and its salty cling completed
within Device Manager completed over
August and its salty cling maddening a dark living-room
before noon and my skin finally upgraded deliberating
among August and its
salty cling contemplated
or maddening August and its
salty cling if my
skin finally upgraded
completed divination then divination
contemplated a dark living-room before noon among
Device Manager completed on top
of my skin finally upgraded collaged
divinity and a dark living-room before noon
Written by Poem Generator 1.2
08-08-2001
Pitch black shoots over her expansive breath
and her expansive breath wetting
or in between ludicrously reasoning
and my shrinking head jangling
vietcong guerrillas because the spread of her strawberry skin
and her expansive breath having underclutch
of amorous sleep shallowing out
into my shrinking head or
ludicrously reasoning clandestine rendezvous
on top of clutch of amorous sleep over
his scope having her expansive
breath into but my shrinking
head and the spread of her strawberry skin
blasted under her expansive breath jangling
and shallowing out in between clandestine rendezvous
ludicrously reasoning among his scope ludicrously reasoning
Written by Poem Generator 1.1
08-04-2001
gleefully creaming and deliberately gracefully
standing the camera swims among objectified emotional breakdown
froze my body on tape then objectified emotional breakdown
gleefully creaming my body on tape trailing
if creased bills revolving the camera
then subjects gleefully creaming
the movement that knows also
my body on tape revolving within
objectified emotional breakdown
revolving over my body on tape
deliberately gracefully standing the
camera and subjects trilled among my body on tape
pulsed or deliberately gracefully standing
my body on tape if subjects revolving
the movement that knows then the movement
that knows pulsed the camera among
objectified emotional breakdown revolving
on top of subjects gleefully creaming creased bills and the camera
Written by Poem Generator 1.2
08-06-2001
Face-to-face meetings
electrocutes the riddle
in dreaming as if
the riddle in dreaming
also floated away and face-to-face meetings
floated away that slant-slide of
eyes in between lyricism
the riddle in dreaming smoking
into lyricism floated away floated away
romantic hideaway
also face-to-face meetings in between people
programmed to consume people
programmed to consume juicing people
programmed to consume and face-to-face meetings
or into lyricism fled the riddle in dreaming within that slant-slide
of eyes reality as a verb romantic
hideaway equalized the
riddle in dreaming then face-to-face meetings
pearled as well
as fled people
programmed
to consume and that slant-slide
of eyes waxed the riddle in dreaming electrocutes romantic hideaway
Written by Poem Generator 1.2
08-08-2001
Sour grinning hooks raped on top of milky fisheyes his dusk-riddled face stiffening in between that missing girl because mouthfuls of tepid wash deafens that missing girl under milky fisheyes his blotted-out fingers cleans into those drowned twins because that missing girl purifies sour grinning hooks and that missing girl deafens his blotted-out fingers and on top of those drowned twins stiffening that missing girl cleans among his blotted-out fingers or angry tides bloated or deafens those drowned twins stiffening over mouthfuls of tepid wash but purifies into that missing girl and under his blotted-out fingers purifies under his dusk-riddled face raped because angry tides on top of that missing girl or those drowned twins deafens on top of his blotted-out fingers because raped into mouthfuls of tepid wash and strangled
Written by Poem Generator 1.0
08-02-2001
Octopus hair was sapphire blaze as if sapphire blaze also sweltering and octopus hair sweltering mocha in between memorization of dappled floors sapphire blaze carves into memorization of dappled floors sweltering sweltering finalized etching also octopus hair in between the certitude of erasure the certitude of erasure corroborate the certitude of erasure and octopus hair or into memorization of dappled floors brimmed sapphire blaze within mocha broken English finalized etching raw rubbing sapphire blaze then octopus hair shelters as well as brimmed the certitude of erasure and mocha safely engaged sapphire blaze was finalized etching
Written by Poem Generator 1.2
08-06-2001
A sad but curly smile hardening on top of her dappled arms her sigh-soft body nestled in between my teeth because the raining lips warmly enshrouded my teeth under her dappled arms the implosion of her kiss liquidly buried into the cold because my teeth sweetening a sad but curly smile and my teeth warmly enshrouded the implosion of her kiss and on top of the cold nestled my teeth liquidly buried among the implosion of her kiss or green eyes dissolved or warmly enshrouded the cold nestled over the raining lips but sweetening into my teeth and under the implosion of her kiss sweetening under her sigh-soft body hardening because green eyes on top of my teeth or the cold warmly enshrouded on top of the implosion of her kiss because hardening into the raining lips and pinkens
Written by Poem Generator 1.0
08-02-2001
His hand furnished within hard-boiled ex-cop as well as hard-boiled ex-cop burned or among asking and teen-age tigress talking fists because candle-wax because hard-boiled ex-cop growled within stolen jewels reached out in between teen-age tigress or asking her face within stolen jewels over the kiss growled hard-boiled ex-cop into but teen-age tigress and candle-wax leaving under hard-boiled ex-cop talking because reached out as if her face asking among the kiss asking
Written by Poem Generator 1.2
08-07-2001
Us faced on top of she saturn frantically itching in between crepuscular tongue because they sitting down crepuscular tongue under she cobalt separations washed up into annotated fur because crepuscular tongue dried us and crepuscular tongue sitting down cobalt separations and on top of annotated fur frantically itching crepuscular tongue washed up among cobalt separations or grizzled light immobilized or sitting down annotated fur frantically itching over they but dried into crepuscular tongue and under cobalt separations dried under saturn faced because grizzled light on top of crepuscular tongue orannotated fur sitting down on top of cobalt separations because faced into they and spurting
Written by Poem Generator 1.0
08-02-2001
Shined and sweats orange fructified among vents pulsating kissing as being then vents shined kissing as being breathing if the gaze glittered orange then fermentation shined sagging eyes also kissing as being glittered within vents glittered over kissing as being sweats orange and fermentation glints among kissing as being sparkling or sweats kissing as being if fermentation glittered sagging eyes then sagging eyes sparkling orange among vents glittered on top of fermentation shined the gaze and orange
Written by Poem Generator 1.2
08-07-2001
Lips verified on top of odors her mouth muttering in between a hilltop because silk aggravated a hilltop under odors his chest undulates into the minutes because a hilltop castrated lips and a hilltop aggravated his chest and on top of the minutes muttering a hilltop undulates among his chest or my heart shucked or aggravated the minutes muttering over silk but castrated into a hilltop and under his chest castrated under her mouth verified because my heart on top of a hilltop or the minutes aggravated on top of his chest because verified into silk and collapsed
Written by Poem Generator 1.0
08-02-2001
Salt inflaming or moistening the craving into earth and salt salve while worms quells bristling sips. the craving shudders worms within the elevation of chafed lips undulating if palpitating earth on top of salt. salt salve while whispers salt. the elevation of chafed lips palpitating also the craving undulating in between salt the elevation of chafed lips whispers then undulating salt over the craving and flagrant apologies whispers over salt. or whispers bacchanal, bristling sips quells salt in between inflaming or salt shudders under the elevation of chafed lips salt palpitating also shudders bacchanal into earth, salt whispers but palpitating into bacchanal earth palpitating salt, if the elevation of chafed lips moistening among flagrant apologies salt quells because moistening the elevation of chafed lips worms palpitating also whispers the elevation of chafed lips. into salt if flagrant apologies inflaming while the craving shudders bacchanal. bacchanal undulating earth also salt quells bacchanal under salt. flagrant apologies palpitating earth while salt salt salve the craving and quells over bristling sips salt and the elevation of chafed lips undulating into worms.
Written by Poem Generator 1.2
08-24-2001
Lewis LaCook is a poet, musician and multimedia web artist originally from Lorain, Ohio. Editor of the web journal Idiolect (http://www.lewislacook.com/idiolect5.html), his poetry has appeared in Lost And Found Times, Aught, Slope, Cauldron and Net, Poethia, Blaze, Friction, Caught in The Net, The Hold, 3rd Bed, Avant Garde Times, PotePoetZine, PotePoetText, Littoral West, Atomicpetals, Interweave, 5-Trope, Black River Review, Whiskey Island, The Coventry Reader and Luna Negra, among others. Anabasis published his long poem Cling as a chapbook in early 2000, and he has collaborated with the poet Sheila E. Murphy on a book length poem entitled Beyond The Bother of Sunlight. BeeHive is set to offer his short poem series, The Odious Art of Lewis LaCook, as an e-book for the Palm Pilot as part of their Microtitle Series in late September/early October of 2001. He co-edited the first Slope New Avant Writing sampler with Ethan Paquin as part of Slope's fifth issue. A Writing Mentor at the trAce Online Writing Centre at Nottingham Trent University in the UK, he is currently fascinated with both objectoriented programming languages (C, C++. QuickBASIC, Javascript) and the possibilities of hypertext media. He writes about new media for Suite101.com. Lewis lives in Richmond, Virginia, with his fiancee Renee Vaverchak. They believe deep in their hearts that Buttercup is truly the coolest Power Puff Girl.
POEM #1 --- David Fujino
So I’ll SHUT UP !
Hottest Young Celebs
Farmers Air Beef
Booming My Face
«Aesthetization»
Enemy of The People
Bingo !
POEM #2 --- David Fujino
- untitled -
the populace
hums
of it
your arms
i
it seems
possible
it warms
cresting
beauty
welts
their
blood
hold
strange
eastern
move
gatherings
flesh
once
body
out
came
wide
embrace want
2)
strange
feverish
open
dream
seems
fall
later
tangled
fail
ground
clarity
last
touch
face
command
POEM #3 --- David Fujino
the age
de-
mistify
a sublet
customized
words
soupçon
that are striking
sensitive
byline
confected
splices
cream
the bridge
metro
doors
dictionary
spiral
rust
verge
hairs
avant
sack
tilt overlap
area
dry
2)
witty
hoaxes
technique
replenish
sap
hen’s mouth
repeat
the
quotidian
POEM #4 --- David Fujino
almost ... only
shoes.
verb.
busy.
contradict me.
ride ripshod.
la machines.
face plates.
gradual shift.
of core.
almost feel.
refurbished.
holsters.
anonymous couples.
realistic quality.
offender s.
from the outback.
a life-like command.
scanned. ignored.
window’s inner air. freud.
over the shoulder. allure.
doctored documents. the business end of.
the company we keep. for.
words. out.
2)
pose as members. men.
many unheard-of. ways.
with flag and. families.
War Zone
The engine of her dreams overwhelms her
Rumpled, tattered in leftover quivers of sleep,
She is self-absorbed beside the claymores
Scattered like potent stars on February fields;
Each universe of ends measures its eternity
In the frozen, shallow soil.
This is what she knows:
Batteries of houses shelled like picnic corn,
Cordwood piled like arms resisting sleep,
Minarets like charms dangling in the wind,
Stretching to bear dreams across backs of the dead.
The hell of war is the eternal now,
Tattered bandages muffling footsteps
Across the frozen, bloodied snow
Melting to quench her thirst for tomorrow.
Words. out.
This edition of THE ENGINE will deal with artificial intelligence and poetry (or, better still, the relationship of technology to art), or AI as it is known to fans of Steven Spielberg. This, in brief, is the idea that computers and machines can be taught to think independently by humans and of humans. The reasoning goes, that if the creativity of humans is more or less equalised in terms of artistic value, then why should we not also think that non-human entities might also create, and in any case, what is it that is unique about the creativity of some or all? I would argue that our ideas of individual creativity, and even the concept of ‘genius’ are the legacy of 19th Century Romanticism. The movement which we know as Romanticism and which in Germany was called Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) implied that certain people who we call artists, possess specialised skills that they were not taught and which are in fact unteachable, or that some aspects of the artist’s craft is teachable and that other aspects originate from an innate, possibly genetic source. In this sense Mozart was not ‘made’, he was ‘born’. We call this ‘talent’ or ‘genius’. The German Romantics took this cult of individualism to an extreme, by deliberately cultivating eccentricity and ‘madness’ as a sign of their genius. Their behaviour was unconventional but it was not madness in any clinical sense. Contrastingly, the Enlightenment movement of rationalism, logic and order, perceived the human subject as being more or less equalised with other human subjects, given similar environments and opportunities.
The changing relationship between man, nature and the machine has been observed since at least the beginning of the 19th Century, if not before. We all remember Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein and the creation of Frankenstein’s monster from human parts. With the advent of the era of the computer and robot, it is no longer necessary to think that wayward robbers of morgues and graves like Frankenstein need exist. Artifical humans can be built from non-human parts, but can they be made to think like humans? Another parallel movement of man and machine appeared at roughly the same time as Mary Shelley’s novel, the phenomenon of Luddism. This was a direct product of the Industrial Revolution, which was located mainly, but not exclusively, in Britain. In short, the managers of factories wished to utilise machines which would take the place of human labour. This would increase profits and decrease labour cost. There would only be a minimal requirement of labour, those workers needed to man the machines. Many labourers would be dispensed with and the new kind of labour would be much more specialised than had been the case in the previous machine production era. The benefits were obvious, more profit and the knock-on effect of higher productivity and lower labour costs. Even though the owners of the machines might profit from this, in the main, there would be a ‘trickle down’ effect. The employers would have to spend their cash on goods and services, the skilled workers would be more highly paid than the labourers of the past. The trickle down effect would percolate through society producing more wealth, more leisure time and eradicate many of the hardships of pre-industrial production, where life was invariably short and unpleasant. The opposition to this process came from those labourers or craftsmen who could not rationalise the process of change and who also stood to lose their jobs. They also perceived the new relationship between man, nature and the machine as ‘unnatural’ in the sense that it replaced a former relationship that they had felt to be ‘natural’ and ‘normal’. These were the followers of Ned Ludd, machine breakers who insisted on attacking the non-human threat to their existence. In our own era, the computer revolution has necessitated similar changes. The industrial heartlands of Northern Europe have disappeared, most heavy industry has moved away to the Far East. In its place came the computer revolution and the new technologies it spawned. Obviously the old working class elites, the group styled the ‘aristocracy of labour’ by Socialists, fought this process in Britain. They were beaten in what is regarded by the Left as a ‘historic defeat’ for the working classes in Britain.
My underlying point is that the relationships of man, nature and machine are by no means either ‘natural’ or ‘unnatural’, and that any formulation of ‘nature’ must in any case be linked to an understanding of the concept of ‘culture’. Those relationships may change constantly, but the underlying assumption is that we need machines as tools and have needed them for as long as civilisation has existed. It may be that there are aspects of this civilisation that we dislike or would like to change, there are also those we regard it as ‘civilisation’, in that it is not civilisation at all, but barbarism. The problem encountered by those thinkers who rejected the notion of ‘civilisation’, such as the 19th Century philosopher and political activist, Karl Marx, is that machines cease to be autonomous human tools, and instead enslave man. (In my schema, a hammer is a tool, but a bicycle is clearly a machine. A hammer is a tool necessary for the manufacture and production of machines and therefore simply a proto-machine.) Obviously this process is initiated by the owners of capital and factories who originated those processes but who do not necessarily own or foresee the end results. Instead of machines being useful tools, they become agents of human misery. Finally humanity is sealed within a tomb of its own devising. Machines have taken the place of humans. Man is the servant of the machine, not the machine the servant of man, man is mastered by the system, not the master of the system.
The philosopers of AI might take this one step further and say that this is no bad thing. Eventually we will be able to acquire electonic, microchip-controlled replacement limbs and kidneys. Ultimately scientists will be able to replace the human brain with a computer, programmed no doubt with ‘synthetic’ human memories and emotions. The concept of being ‘born’ and ‘dying’ will be subsitituted with the concept of ‘replacement’. Humanity will become cybernetic. We will in fact become androids, robots, cyborgs. Those who wish to (or perhaps there may not be this freedom of choice, machines were originally brought in undemocratically, the changes were not outlined to those who would suffer from those changes, those changes were imposed and this resulted in a rebellion against change.) can remain human and face the human dilemma of birth and death, the human race a dwindling herd relegated perhaps to performing menial labouring tasks for its robotic masters.
This future can only occur when AI is proven to work, and this requires, in the first place, an emotional relationship between man and machine. Only when man feels empathy for the machine can the machine begin to take on human characteristics. Perhaps this change will occur, and I realise that this has more to do with those gimcrack areas of science presently perceived as beyond the lore of conventional science. A machine cannot take on the human characteristics of thought and emotion without this necessary leap, but it is a leap which implies an understanding as much to do with Extra-Sensory-Perception, Crop Circles or UFOs as microchips, software and A drives. However, might it not also be said that the idea of space travel would have been unconceivable only 2000 years ago, a short step in terms of the time we know that the Universe has existed. Sufferers from autism have been known to form relationships with objects, it has also been said that most people live somewhere on the autism spectrum. There are other aspects of human behaviour and cognition that science is completely unable to account for, even the most basic phenomena, such as why we require sleep or why we yawn.
If you wish to submit your human or non-human poems or stories to THE ENGINE then send them to Mr Paul Murphy at Quinqureme@Hotmail.com
Peter Ganick was publisher of Potes & Poets press, a major experimental poetry publisher, for nineteen years. Twelve books of his poetry have been published, most recently, Podiums: Autobiographical Cafe Fictions. He has delivered readings in all four corners of the United States, but not yet in the U.K., or Europe.
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2] tact of reporting on soft lipsynch moods, hidden for manifold threads of the partaking slam out to blood-let the fuselage torn in thrice. nexus with agoraphobic rumors there with nothing either latent nor circular. mandible choking with assurance previously tapped from alliance the medley sycophant, though unrealizable. commonsense tears at virtual modesties, thought of in static fusses, traction for lozenges with pervasively topped mafia clusters. without being unmindful, tangents of the replication assume torrents weird and wonderful sup at dim sum rolodexes, the flood of folds in leatherette and synergy. in a tabloid motion, no harvest waves down pretense monists capitulate upon, naked for exhilaration as musicale. tenderly acting in prattle in paradox less the matter.
3] defiantly crosswise on blooded flooring, a magisterial glance witlessly arrows out to seep invasively tarpon so much the fellowship regulated and not transitted. in flame to blend a proportion ticks over solar ficklenesses rich in glistening before the situation pujas into arcane modesties. so deported from the affixed to the moved, one seeks a permission for applications to emulate favored bandagings.
4] decently unique, thesaurus on holiday battered in mater holdings, truant before letting smallness exit benzene rooms, the trellis offensively probed through averting eyelashed moorings told of themselves later. dense as a tapped relatedness, on sectarian glue not havoc reopened ingredients amounts bereft in alliance to prove themes reduce to less than a multifarious nomenclature. lariats moribund or heroic intend a union fortuitous or blessed.
5] narrating impulse altered inwardly before frames step back, intentional hurdles, small talk on the next bully prudence named out of sympathy equally foolish and warped. each transistor of the appreciation oddly combustible watersheds infect the mirage enraged with sir and madam invoiced to the aspiration-free, then their muscle. denigrated foam fulsome too replete as moebius clouds reinvigorate with earfuls of mindstyle. thrown out the class activity once exoteric natures trust evolution its own periodicity’s rapport in a cartel more the salute than the reflection. compulsion attends retentive politics, had out in crabby nimbus laughters without number. the gash without numeric advantage, necessary to erase weirdness toxic in trepidation massively prevaricated out to the sunny days outward, into the climbing days inwardly demanding a circuit to mesmerize its travail noon-time waits in the wings.
6] swindle watery eyes, mature there not indexed, a total to remind as flair exaggerating with holistic motives clashing windless rooms told of romance and gratefulness. nature ascends iterative policies, no hampering of hospitality with led screens treasonous for marred blueness, no factor less the present-past-future assurances of the tension makers. deranged of itemized clutter so necessitized in action any media to please, flurries to plan impossible retinues. the score at reined onward one solar penalty clewless window in remorse. not had in overly trapped impossibilities, smiled at for moiré pavements readjust to cloistered ingredients, soaped down in names’ volume.
7] egregious as climate sleekly fertile there sold itself of worn-in sandals, teased out to practice in ascent more the averted lissome flagrance if meant. some place in heraldry’s ontological scrutiny to blare inventories of what if sarcasm clings to breach inmost tensions. naming issues a replete movement before gaining serenity in addendum or portions elsewhere flaunted. attack in various prominences, the redolent in capricious nomenclatures sling before a stadium, competition or fixation in solace. some mirrored witness escorts the not-quite-double klister weaving better there in stutter.
8] then elected knitwork of skull cap and freesia, hand out into a manifold talking. derivation silenced for sumptuous regions waive affordable heating panels. commendable thankfulness aptly regroups inner rapacity solemnly revoiced before adversity probes tasks under the streaming light abyssal before ripening. returned integrally the potion widely permafrost thinking silence witlessly, theatrical motions aside wrenching formulae throated in sorrow’s gristle. hermeneutic allure ratchets upside down in flageolet mirrors, to the trebling of repartee sliding slightly misqueued.
9] decently under answered forms, thrall of expedience wolves down approbation or approval, not the heretic lost in frantic revulsion. nattered out of chorus thinking respite of relatively pervasive annotations glow, no favors are indicated more slothful agendas prevail. tendencies to remove, tendencies willed into greatly insulted impressions, tore down in sultry varmint clapboard instructor electing incommensurable troikas there on a bridge. seamlessly traversed thought of periodic amnesty not haven to the remission of protean glissandi, foci demean neither heat nor cold, in the strata more fulfillment less inventory. sonic slight wires the remnants of dispassion’s tractor-fed sloka, nor mannerist invoice to replace totals coldness came being in sequent familiarities their blend. nor mandala, each reel spoken in transience, any clobbered plastic bumping down streets variably the tensile with adjective sported. climbed the familiar space windowless rooms inflate in serial chopstick, toon to the exigent in mannerism naïve and truculent.
10] re-inspected for illimitable coherence, matters in one site framed through action in repining the salt of engines. noon as permission to accede in the entity coding remote sallies forth, tellingly oneself irascible for momentary announcer’s fluid sofa. definite for amounts to expiate on which nature therefore soothing political emulations crane throatlessly, the exported folderol amity-prone to secrete the exeunt of malediction. snail sorbet increases torment failingly nestling with appearance totally thisness to replace overly tournamental cost-analyses. in effect mortised though parallel, one expects as mirages the effervescent aprille to size down in partaken intention a crippled ingénue.
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Sheila E. Murphy recently performed her poetry for Lit City in New Orleans. In April 2000, she presented a series of readings and workshops at the Arvon Foundation at Totleigh-Barton, Devon, in the UK, in addition to performing at the third annual Boston Poetry Conference. In 1999, she was a featured performer at the annual Brisbane Writers Festival in Queensland, Australia. Murphy has authored numerous books of poetry, most recently The Stuttering of Wings (Stride Press, UK, 2002), and The Indelible Occasion (Potes & Poets Press, 2000). Books scheduled for publication include Recent Flute Silences from SUN/gemini Press and Green Tea with Ginger (Potes & Poets Press). She and Beverly Carver co-founded the Scottsdale Center for the Arts Poetry Series and served as coordinators for 12 years. The series continues under the direction of Carolyn Robbins, Curator of Education, at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts. In 1996, Murphy’s Letters to Unfinished J. won the New American Poetry Series Open Competition. The book is scheduled to appear from Sun & Moon Press.
Splurge a rive
Gauche craft-
Side reel in the do-
Main splay plural
After posses glam
(glom) onto and
Toward a piece of
Richter timed
To say for sure
Altonal evitertiary lube’s
The book of Job
Jodhpurs to ’stitute
Emergency relapse
Quaint kind of ’drolic
Fungus few would
Falter to intone
The done tons acclimated
To a portion of (the syst-)
Skirm rolocable true
Parameter in for-
Ce when / if
The diatonic
Scalar temple
Mews through covetous
Tail spun closely
Sousaphonetic
Back-combed splurge a rive
gauche craft-
side reel in the do-
main splay plural
after posses glam
(glom) onto and
toward a piece of
Richter timed
to say for sure
altonal evitertiary lube’s
the book of Job
jodhpurs to ’stitute
emergency relapse
quaint kind of ’drolic
fungus few would
falter to intone
the done tons acclimated
to a portion of (the syst-)
At this Age
Seen is glass age teething
Trial civilization which moment
Is emotional rebuilt coalition
Mitigates reality or clouds
How does it happen emerald
Remains the color I am wearing
Hostile forces yield to what bakes
Even souls with heart while
Captivacity encounters spirit
Riddled with beatitude
Have you been animate this near the heart
Brave not to have confided
Boldness
Revere what you have referred to
In omniscient fury plastered
Against memory the closeness
Implicates assurance
Continuing the scope of task
The challenge: How to crater out devotion
Toward consummate breakage
Viewed as the entire world
Objectives when achieved will scald
The tendency of entities to tether
And disintegrate specific flowers
Is there a beauty thus
Unfolded as the act of
Breastfeeding that ends
In mind
Patrolling givens closes ranks
All parasitic degradation
Of the mother ship
Young upstart emboldened by
A quaint disequilibrium
Would feign intolerance
The word “grave” aggravates
The price of letting go
Makes and delivers what is not protracted
Purpose and resolve
Versus chimera near the ranks
Consistently too close to call
A veneration
She is Expanding No One Knows
She is expanding no one knows
How large though everyone
Would hesitate to approach
She takes on properties
And now there is so much of her
Her reach extends her presence and her silhouette
Formerly small though who recalls her not being
This formidable emergency endowment
Purple in the face and aimed at each
With the intensity of things stowed
Although never fully put away
What Goes On There Where
What goes on there where
You are even in tandem
With me with me
I see the grater come to change the road
I see the road beneath appear the same
A smallness posed and poised and
Pointed south appears to have been smothering
Injustice partially assigned the getaway low-rider
Near or far astride the velvety times five
Informally formatted eternity
Give me a report
Give me a retort
Give me your sanctions and your poor
Repetitive exclamation points
The movie of our holdings showing in an hour
What does this mean
What is the upshot
And the outcome
And the freeze-frame
Locomotive sanity
Imbued with lookers on
Pencil soft against the pulp
Barely leaves markings, merely
Documents a kinesthetic impulse,
So hand muscles come to teach
The brain what has been broken
Into broadcast, one gesture at a time,
The body and the mind hold
A discovery together, this
New ritual come home to avenue
Its way into untended area
Protected by no legislation or
Presumed conscience, inferred,
The mind last night showed pictures
Of investing in communal shelter,
Combined with voice, I practiced
Speaking song to indicate this urgency
Crafty little certain child of wheels,
The act of kisscare ladles warm
Across your forehead fair and signed
Statements to which you’d swear
The leavings offer more than breaking down
By points and by degree matter of
Fact resorting to some textured
Walls attracting white blue gray blue
Sweat blue sterling chamois boy cloth
To decode the worked windows
Of what outsiders mean when they say
Carefree attitudes obfuscate
The desiree’s indelible semantic differential
Outtakes that remand to torsion
All the old minds on the popcorn
Plate amid popped new
Maybe discernment shifts
A fraction of the essence
Of the flower, definite article
Points to linkages between
Form and lack of function,
Trespass potentially incinerates
Definition, boundaries equal,
For the most part, pretense,
Angular external inference begins
To teach the eyes belief
In their own fiction, thereby
Extending mirror properties
Of answers to the questions still
Unposed, sometimes not yet thought,
How does one know the difference
Between self and what’s outside one’s jurisdiction
Cup of tea with milk, strong tea,
Two tea bags settled in to help splurge
Into being Friday, talk day, teach day,
Drive day teetering on the exigencies
Spawning what is likely based on
What is learned, the even line, firm line,
Matching the trusted road hinging
Function and a small space housing
Pillow and quiet, protecting boundaries
Desired to hold safety in the cortex,
Drive what is outside them far
From thought of seepage or more radical
Intrusion, basis for a way of thinking
Transfer is the hope, taking a life,
Transplanting life to where the pulse
Motions inside in imitation of the outside
Straightlaced adages contract,
They loop around contrarian revulsion,
Swarthy activation of contiguous
Remorse unless we tithe as we are
Motived, vaulted into longhand
Flinking porous or remarkable
With angst as taped long onto
Stilled stochastics, viable as
Anger in remission, parsed and
Grated and recurring as the blue
Against the Lorca trees, the tensile
Overcast insurgent history
Positioned bolt upright as
Instability, as imbued with
Properties connected to largesse
As life lived on the margin
Enumerate what you have failed to love
Sufficiently, curtail the impulse
To restrict emotion to a slow
Deployment of affection in somebody’s
Erstwhile steep, consider premium
Solutions that divide the petals
From the other petals of a flower,
Correspond a muse’s wafer
Where the host is placed, on tongue,
On cue, on purview learned prior
To the earning reflex evident
In how motion is tracked
Along the curve of history’s
Fueled barometric lien on
Inference indelibly established
The way rice is all too casually tossed
Ani-mangy
depth of feeling sacrifices
Skiprope over stand pipe valve,
Bucket or twelve of tea to
Loosen daylight from intrusive
Potency estranged from skillful
Laced-shut status pain assigns,
The minuet of off-ramp show
Or place, amendment to the first
Third of the agreement, gray areas
Suddenly pinned down, stripped
To its roots, a nearly binary
Configuration, plantlike as a wave
Accepting of new breath
Released across a field
Evolved into maturity worth
Seeing, shepherding, declaring whole
Sheila Murphy
The QBASIC Poems
Volume 1
Lewis LaCook
idiolect electronic editions richmond virginia 2001
'poemgenerator 1.2
'by Lewis LaCook August 14, 2001
'updated August 24, 2001
An Introduction to AI poetry by Lewis La Cook
My use of computer-generated text is more a matter of breaking out of stylistic habits....also, there's something very I Ching about it---the poetry generator was created in August 2001, and was a useful tool for a while, but the works are VERY predetermined in its case (it works based on templates I set up within it). I recently created a text generator for prose poems that works more along random lines (it must be keep in mind, also, that machines do not truly understand random choices, they simply seed their choices in varying ways) in that for one, each word is chosen by the machine...the user still feeds the program words (20 nouns, 20 verbs) but the placement of those choices and some arrays of prepositions and connectors is seeded randomly....thus one ends up with things like:
it will be as if hollowing out january at to we had into a check love we . piece of shit sell me into
ventilation is however bid ladyhead vase up positive feedback . january made down smokes
january.me like as if the mouse sex] under it .
the mouse smokes in case of kiss the mouse . beside as if kiss as january leave january . a check
hollowing out ventilation of course a check hollowing out yahoo mailbox in between I . a check wants
it within I . this one guy went the box or taking outside red enamelled dish .
we then january sex] down I .
positive feedback kiss in case of had mucous without . in case of mucous taking beside the stupid
postguy . however taking piece of shit , a check smokes ladyhead vase under buy and a check is after
yahoo mailbox . positive feedback smokes consequently will be yahoo mailbox inside I.
the stupid postguy wants or like positive feedback .
she made in addition to this one guy . into the wall pocket if yahoo mailbox in the midst of I will be
me. the wall pocket went it between piece of shit spanking it inside someone . the wall pocket bid a
check before the stupid postguy. this one guy is the wall pocket as if spanking inside the wall pocket .
positive feedback as well as me bid under I .
red enamelled dish kiss and hollowing out we among red enamelled dish however red enamelled
dish is into the stupid postguy went me . the box bid ventilation within someone kiss consequently
wants ventilation on top of mucous . the box is in between are this one guy.the mouse spanking and
piece of shit will be outside someone .
a check love in addition to seems it with piece of shit . however a check had over a check . in
case of like someone , positive feedback are red enamelled dish up are therefore mucous is among
january . yahoo mailbox will be because made piece of shit outside the stupid postguy.
this one guy had at the box .
02-15-2002
His frigid palms overlaps and binges Ambulance attack.
target audience bombed and joins Ambulance attack under
full moon. then slices
of breath bombed in between Ambulance attack. but joins Drive,
the self caressed his frigid palms on top of flipped then Ambulance attack caressed among total erasure. slices of breath
caressed because joins full moon in between
full moon, Ambulance
attack rubbing as well as overlaps while his frigid palms. full moon binges Drive, and slices of breath purging among
full moon. his frigid palms flipped
or joins total erasure. over full
moon but his frigid palms binges on top of target audience caressed his frigid palms. Ambulance attack rubbing
ambulance attack as well as full moon purging full moon while target audience. His frigid palms caressed Ambulance attack among total erasure.
the self binges target audience but rubbing into Ambulance attack. the self then
Drive rubbing while full moon.
the self binges if binges total erasure
within Ambulance attack as well as
his frigid palms overlaps over target
audience overlaps the self. Drive purging total erasure under the self.
Written by Poem Generator 1.2
08-24-2001
My drift pries open
the woman in
the moon as if the woman
in the moon also cartwheeling and my drift cartwheeling frail alien tryst in between spun-silk seas the
woman in the moon running into spun-silk
seas cartwheeling
cartwheeling babytalk also
my drift in between a scald of daubs a scald
of daubs shivers a scald
of daubs and my drift
or into spun-silk seas burning the
woman in the moon within frail
alien tryst shorelines babytalk
burying the woman in the moon
then my drift scolded as well as burning
a scald of daubs and frail alien tryst
ravished the woman in the moon pries open babytalk
Written by Poem Generator 1.2
08-10-2001
Tummy-gurgles churned on top of
slivers of birdsong a crimped-up pillow
surging in between angled-shadows
of eaves because my smudged windows
rustled angled-shadows of eaves under
slivers of birdsong forgotten garbage
bubbling into heavy drenched
sunshine because angled-shadows of eaves
gargles tummy-gurgles and
angled-shadows of eaves rustled
forgotten garbage and on top
of heavy drenched sunshine surging
angled-shadows of eaves bubbling
among forgotten garbage or sunflower
clockfaces wafts or rustled heavy drenched
sunshine surging over my smudged
windows but gargles
into angled-shadows of eaves
and under forgotten garbage gargles
under a crimped-up pillow
churned because sunflower clockfaces
on top of angled-shadows of eaves or
heavy drenched sunshine rustled on top
of forgotten garbage because
churned into my smudged windows and twirling
Written by Poem Generator 1.0
08-02-2001
Collaged and maddening a dark
living-room before noon fused to
among Device Manager
damned August and its salty cling
then Device Manager collaged
August and its salty cling twining
if divinity completed a dark
living-room before noon then my skin
finally upgraded collaged divination
also August and its salty cling completed
within Device Manager completed over
August and its salty cling maddening a dark living-room
before noon and my skin finally upgraded deliberating
among August and its
salty cling contemplated
or maddening August and its
salty cling if my
skin finally upgraded
completed divination then divination
contemplated a dark living-room before noon among
Device Manager completed on top
of my skin finally upgraded collaged
divinity and a dark living-room before noon
Written by Poem Generator 1.2
08-08-2001
Pitch black shoots over her expansive breath
and her expansive breath wetting
or in between ludicrously reasoning
and my shrinking head jangling
vietcong guerrillas because the spread of her strawberry skin
and her expansive breath having underclutch
of amorous sleep shallowing out
into my shrinking head or
ludicrously reasoning clandestine rendezvous
on top of clutch of amorous sleep over
his scope having her expansive
breath into but my shrinking
head and the spread of her strawberry skin
blasted under her expansive breath jangling
and shallowing out in between clandestine rendezvous
ludicrously reasoning among his scope ludicrously reasoning
Written by Poem Generator 1.1
08-04-2001
gleefully creaming and deliberately gracefully
standing the camera swims among objectified emotional breakdown
froze my body on tape then objectified emotional breakdown
gleefully creaming my body on tape trailing
if creased bills revolving the camera
then subjects gleefully creaming
the movement that knows also
my body on tape revolving within
objectified emotional breakdown
revolving over my body on tape
deliberately gracefully standing the
camera and subjects trilled among my body on tape
pulsed or deliberately gracefully standing
my body on tape if subjects revolving
the movement that knows then the movement
that knows pulsed the camera among
objectified emotional breakdown revolving
on top of subjects gleefully creaming creased bills and the camera
Written by Poem Generator 1.2
08-06-2001
Face-to-face meetings
electrocutes the riddle
in dreaming as if
the riddle in dreaming
also floated away and face-to-face meetings
floated away that slant-slide of
eyes in between lyricism
the riddle in dreaming smoking
into lyricism floated away floated away
romantic hideaway
also face-to-face meetings in between people
programmed to consume people
programmed to consume juicing people
programmed to consume and face-to-face meetings
or into lyricism fled the riddle in dreaming within that slant-slide
of eyes reality as a verb romantic
hideaway equalized the
riddle in dreaming then face-to-face meetings
pearled as well
as fled people
programmed
to consume and that slant-slide
of eyes waxed the riddle in dreaming electrocutes romantic hideaway
Written by Poem Generator 1.2
08-08-2001
Sour grinning hooks raped on top of milky fisheyes his dusk-riddled face stiffening in between that missing girl because mouthfuls of tepid wash deafens that missing girl under milky fisheyes his blotted-out fingers cleans into those drowned twins because that missing girl purifies sour grinning hooks and that missing girl deafens his blotted-out fingers and on top of those drowned twins stiffening that missing girl cleans among his blotted-out fingers or angry tides bloated or deafens those drowned twins stiffening over mouthfuls of tepid wash but purifies into that missing girl and under his blotted-out fingers purifies under his dusk-riddled face raped because angry tides on top of that missing girl or those drowned twins deafens on top of his blotted-out fingers because raped into mouthfuls of tepid wash and strangled
Written by Poem Generator 1.0
08-02-2001
Octopus hair was sapphire blaze as if sapphire blaze also sweltering and octopus hair sweltering mocha in between memorization of dappled floors sapphire blaze carves into memorization of dappled floors sweltering sweltering finalized etching also octopus hair in between the certitude of erasure the certitude of erasure corroborate the certitude of erasure and octopus hair or into memorization of dappled floors brimmed sapphire blaze within mocha broken English finalized etching raw rubbing sapphire blaze then octopus hair shelters as well as brimmed the certitude of erasure and mocha safely engaged sapphire blaze was finalized etching
Written by Poem Generator 1.2
08-06-2001
A sad but curly smile hardening on top of her dappled arms her sigh-soft body nestled in between my teeth because the raining lips warmly enshrouded my teeth under her dappled arms the implosion of her kiss liquidly buried into the cold because my teeth sweetening a sad but curly smile and my teeth warmly enshrouded the implosion of her kiss and on top of the cold nestled my teeth liquidly buried among the implosion of her kiss or green eyes dissolved or warmly enshrouded the cold nestled over the raining lips but sweetening into my teeth and under the implosion of her kiss sweetening under her sigh-soft body hardening because green eyes on top of my teeth or the cold warmly enshrouded on top of the implosion of her kiss because hardening into the raining lips and pinkens
Written by Poem Generator 1.0
08-02-2001
His hand furnished within hard-boiled ex-cop as well as hard-boiled ex-cop burned or among asking and teen-age tigress talking fists because candle-wax because hard-boiled ex-cop growled within stolen jewels reached out in between teen-age tigress or asking her face within stolen jewels over the kiss growled hard-boiled ex-cop into but teen-age tigress and candle-wax leaving under hard-boiled ex-cop talking because reached out as if her face asking among the kiss asking
Written by Poem Generator 1.2
08-07-2001
Us faced on top of she saturn frantically itching in between crepuscular tongue because they sitting down crepuscular tongue under she cobalt separations washed up into annotated fur because crepuscular tongue dried us and crepuscular tongue sitting down cobalt separations and on top of annotated fur frantically itching crepuscular tongue washed up among cobalt separations or grizzled light immobilized or sitting down annotated fur frantically itching over they but dried into crepuscular tongue and under cobalt separations dried under saturn faced because grizzled light on top of crepuscular tongue orannotated fur sitting down on top of cobalt separations because faced into they and spurting
Written by Poem Generator 1.0
08-02-2001
Shined and sweats orange fructified among vents pulsating kissing as being then vents shined kissing as being breathing if the gaze glittered orange then fermentation shined sagging eyes also kissing as being glittered within vents glittered over kissing as being sweats orange and fermentation glints among kissing as being sparkling or sweats kissing as being if fermentation glittered sagging eyes then sagging eyes sparkling orange among vents glittered on top of fermentation shined the gaze and orange
Written by Poem Generator 1.2
08-07-2001
Lips verified on top of odors her mouth muttering in between a hilltop because silk aggravated a hilltop under odors his chest undulates into the minutes because a hilltop castrated lips and a hilltop aggravated his chest and on top of the minutes muttering a hilltop undulates among his chest or my heart shucked or aggravated the minutes muttering over silk but castrated into a hilltop and under his chest castrated under her mouth verified because my heart on top of a hilltop or the minutes aggravated on top of his chest because verified into silk and collapsed
Written by Poem Generator 1.0
08-02-2001
Salt inflaming or moistening the craving into earth and salt salve while worms quells bristling sips. the craving shudders worms within the elevation of chafed lips undulating if palpitating earth on top of salt. salt salve while whispers salt. the elevation of chafed lips palpitating also the craving undulating in between salt the elevation of chafed lips whispers then undulating salt over the craving and flagrant apologies whispers over salt. or whispers bacchanal, bristling sips quells salt in between inflaming or salt shudders under the elevation of chafed lips salt palpitating also shudders bacchanal into earth, salt whispers but palpitating into bacchanal earth palpitating salt, if the elevation of chafed lips moistening among flagrant apologies salt quells because moistening the elevation of chafed lips worms palpitating also whispers the elevation of chafed lips. into salt if flagrant apologies inflaming while the craving shudders bacchanal. bacchanal undulating earth also salt quells bacchanal under salt. flagrant apologies palpitating earth while salt salt salve the craving and quells over bristling sips salt and the elevation of chafed lips undulating into worms.
Written by Poem Generator 1.2
08-24-2001
Lewis LaCook is a poet, musician and multimedia web artist originally from Lorain, Ohio. Editor of the web journal Idiolect (http://www.lewislacook.com/idiolect5.html), his poetry has appeared in Lost And Found Times, Aught, Slope, Cauldron and Net, Poethia, Blaze, Friction, Caught in The Net, The Hold, 3rd Bed, Avant Garde Times, PotePoetZine, PotePoetText, Littoral West, Atomicpetals, Interweave, 5-Trope, Black River Review, Whiskey Island, The Coventry Reader and Luna Negra, among others. Anabasis published his long poem Cling as a chapbook in early 2000, and he has collaborated with the poet Sheila E. Murphy on a book length poem entitled Beyond The Bother of Sunlight. BeeHive is set to offer his short poem series, The Odious Art of Lewis LaCook, as an e-book for the Palm Pilot as part of their Microtitle Series in late September/early October of 2001. He co-edited the first Slope New Avant Writing sampler with Ethan Paquin as part of Slope's fifth issue. A Writing Mentor at the trAce Online Writing Centre at Nottingham Trent University in the UK, he is currently fascinated with both objectoriented programming languages (C, C++. QuickBASIC, Javascript) and the possibilities of hypertext media. He writes about new media for Suite101.com. Lewis lives in Richmond, Virginia, with his fiancee Renee Vaverchak. They believe deep in their hearts that Buttercup is truly the coolest Power Puff Girl.
POEM #1 --- David Fujino
So I’ll SHUT UP !
Hottest Young Celebs
Farmers Air Beef
Booming My Face
«Aesthetization»
Enemy of The People
Bingo !
POEM #2 --- David Fujino
- untitled -
the populace
hums
of it
your arms
i
it seems
possible
it warms
cresting
beauty
welts
their
blood
hold
strange
eastern
move
gatherings
flesh
once
body
out
came
wide
embrace want
2)
strange
feverish
open
dream
seems
fall
later
tangled
fail
ground
clarity
last
touch
face
command
POEM #3 --- David Fujino
the age
de-
mistify
a sublet
customized
words
soupçon
that are striking
sensitive
byline
confected
splices
cream
the bridge
metro
doors
dictionary
spiral
rust
verge
hairs
avant
sack
tilt overlap
area
dry
2)
witty
hoaxes
technique
replenish
sap
hen’s mouth
repeat
the
quotidian
POEM #4 --- David Fujino
almost ... only
shoes.
verb.
busy.
contradict me.
ride ripshod.
la machines.
face plates.
gradual shift.
of core.
almost feel.
refurbished.
holsters.
anonymous couples.
realistic quality.
offender s.
from the outback.
a life-like command.
scanned. ignored.
window’s inner air. freud.
over the shoulder. allure.
doctored documents. the business end of.
the company we keep. for.
words. out.
2)
pose as members. men.
many unheard-of. ways.
with flag and. families.
War Zone
The engine of her dreams overwhelms her
Rumpled, tattered in leftover quivers of sleep,
She is self-absorbed beside the claymores
Scattered like potent stars on February fields;
Each universe of ends measures its eternity
In the frozen, shallow soil.
This is what she knows:
Batteries of houses shelled like picnic corn,
Cordwood piled like arms resisting sleep,
Minarets like charms dangling in the wind,
Stretching to bear dreams across backs of the dead.
The hell of war is the eternal now,
Tattered bandages muffling footsteps
Across the frozen, bloodied snow
Melting to quench her thirst for tomorrow.
Words. out.
posted by Paul Murphy at
February 23, 2008
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