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And Hilarity Ensued

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Terry Elliott
Mar 07, 2025
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Here are two poems below. One was written by me and one was written by an AI:

POEM #1

You cannot remake

the tracks of moles,

pressed once

softly into snow.

No summer storm

will summon twice

the salamanders'

silent crossing.

No sycamore,

felled, replanted,

grows fast enough

to hold again

the heron’s

blue-winged nest.

Give up your breath

instead of these.

Your life,

no more…

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