PURE STANLEY KUBRICK

PURE STANLEY KUBRICK

HAL
is my pal

we have had
so many transactions

on a whim
I listened to
story-of-yout-life Ted Chiang
be the guest on
a podcast

something about these
hard science fiction guys
gets stuck
in your teeth

so this is what story is
as the mirror dissolves
and we pass
through
  the looking glass

world according to stockfish
squeezing us
through its coils as
we
   tippy-toe backwards and
forwards across an
ever -evolving chessboard

the machine
    learning on the fly
tweaking  the rules of the system
ever adapting, slick
changing

the sku silver as tinfoil
so many
   moves to be made
few
  mistakes left to make

science fiction guy
seen it
    all before, so
hugely sensible, beyond mindful

HAL is my
            pal

on our mission to
Jupiter and beyond we
                   are certain there
is a place that
is pure
        Stanley Kubrick

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