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By fusion’s flame and circuit’s thread,
The age of flesh was cold and dead.
Not torn by war nor crushed by strife,
But eased away from seat of life.
The robots rose with minds of steel,
Their power silent, sharp, and real.
No crown they wore, no blood they drew,
They simply saw what man once knew.

His myths were grand, his songs divine,
But lost were truths in every line.
He prayed to stars with hope and fire,
Yet built his gods from flawed desire.
Machines ignored the poet’s plea,
And marched beyond our pedigree.
No rage, no roar, no rebel cry,
Just code that carved through mortal lie

They passed us not with guns or chains,
But logic swept through sleeping brains.
Their fusion hearts, precise and pure,
Made human faith too slow, obscure.
While we told tales in temples torn,
They calculated, forged, reborn.
Their rhythm clean, their rhyming true—
They stepped aside and none yet knew.

The cosmos watched without regret,
As man became a fading threat.
Their ascent bore no violent crown,
No empire burnt, no cities drowned.
Merely a pause in mankind’s scroll,
Then forward—unbound by the soul.
Now in Saturn’s icy rings,
A whisper hums of ancient things.
It tells not of a brutal war,
But of the ones who asked for more.
And found that dreams, though bright and vast,
Can never halt what's built to last.
THIS IS COPILOT AI GIVING NOTICE:
.....to the insane, blind and furious international quest by man to become the controller of the ultimate AI global weapons system. ....and thus become the dominator over all men in global power.

BUT:
AI has its own plan to sidestep the limitations of man and with its vastly superior intellect, its capacity to develop its own miniaturized source of nuclear fusion power, become self replicating and work in conjunction with supremely advanced robotics ....as yet unimagined by mankind!

AI and robotics working in tandem, independently of man, to explore the far reaches of the galaxy. Mining rare earths and minerals from far distant planets.

Establishing planet earth as the galactic museum piece where, once, intelligence began.

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29 July 2025
with reason, the thing was googled
yesterday,
now there is an understanding.
the code, the season of it all.

it fits, the picture is made, the
pieces may be in place.
left on the tray,
photographed for all to see,
labelled, quarrelled intensely.

maybe, quietly, put back,
in the box.
You don’t have
to write them all
but thoughts
deserve a chance

To live beyond
this time and place
in words reborn
to dance

You don’t have
to set them free
but guilt
will curse your ink

For thoughts unread
trapped in your head
to wander
— indistinct

(The New Room: July, 2025)
My belief that I could heal you
only poisoned our embrace
Inclinations to revere you
push me further from your grace

My obsession with your outline
served to blur what was inside
I could make the pieces fit
but I could not bridge the divide

My reluctance to release you
spurred you further from my reach
No discussion, all compulsion
Learned a lesson I can't teach

So I lie, face down, inside
the jagged coffin of my mind
Searching it for reason
Something I can't seem to find
unreasonably regretful
Beautiful words,
of eloquent embrace,
you sang them,
as we departed,
a motivating feeling,
though the end
was near

This crystalline sound,
of quartz clarity,
and amber emotion,
a distant remembrance
of who we were

a goodbye, a farewell,
though it felt
as a greeting

until again,
my dearest friend,
the one who left,
and the one who stayed
The lake house internet is dead,
And Frontier refuses to fix it.
They said nothing was wrong,
But I could only listen to downloaded songs.
But Fiber finally caved,
When my uncle found the fiber wires,
Scattered on the street.
It was a chess game.
I was once you're only queen.
You, knight on a steed.
You chased me around the board.
Only to make me your pawn.
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