---
title: Romance - hard.exe
url: https://www.halimmadi.com/singulars/hard-exe/romance
description: "Romance: one theme of hard.exe, two poems, one by the poet and one by the machine, unsigned. Read them and vote."
generated: 2026-10-19
---

# Romance

## romance.txt

trained

theme · hard.exe

Training is closed. Vote counts are final.

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## vote.exe

2 poems · 73 votes

One poem is by a human, one is by a machine, and you are not told which. Pick the one you prefer, then submit your vote.

poem a

This was in Barcelona / Nossara
/ Carcassonne / in a church /
underwater / in broad daylight /
on a couch / against a wall /
drenched in god's sweat / eyes
rolling / white ghost suns / 3d
printing skin / red mother /
white knuckles / tied free /
falling yes / no need to / walk
today

poem b

at dawn the street forgets us
gravel sings about footsteps we
kept for ourselves your absence
a returned light that causes the
dust to dance drops the clock's
hand I watch the seconds sail
through your absence each moment
is stamps I collect with no one
to exchange them against words
which drift towards the horizon

Vote on [the theme's page](https://www.halimmadi.com/singulars/hard-exe/romance).