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“Here is a Philip Larkin poem about Disney World:”
The holiday was over.
The giant mouse and all his clan
Had packed their bags and gone.
The sunshine held out till the end,
The beaches kept their charm.
But they’d had enough of us and we
Had had enough of them.
We had been there a week.
The children played, the men went fishing,
The women lay about the pool
Like beached, upturned fish.
The Disney World was clean and sweet,
But like the world, too small
To do more than contain our thoughts
Of where we ought to be.
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“Here is a stirring Maya Angelou poem about Climate Change:”
“We little knew that morning,
That disaster was stirring,
That Nature’s great convulsion
Was about to begin.
We knew not the hour,
Nor yet the day,
When that awful earthquake shock
Would rend the earth asunder.
We only knew that soon,
Very soon,
The great eruption would occur,
And hurl its molten lava
Over our homes and fields.”
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“Here is a rave review of ‘Artificial Intelligence: Poems by Machines’, written by the New York Times Book Review:”
“A strikingly original collection of poems, written by some of the most advanced artificial intelligence programs in the world. The poems are by turns funny, poignant, and enigmatic, and offer a fascinating glimpse into the workings of the machine mind.”