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

# Event

## event.txt

trained

theme · recover.exe

Training is closed. Vote counts are final.

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## vote.exe

2 poems · 47 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

The night the lake gave back what we threw in - keys, a ring, the small dog of someone's grief - we called it an event, as if water could schedule its honesty. I was nine. My father waded out past the part where fathers stop, and turned, and held up nothing, and grinned, and that was the thing that happened, the thing I keep returning to: a man, waist-deep in cold, choosing to surface empty-handed and pleased.

poem b

From the Greek "venire", "event" is less conqueror than visitor. Yet also from the French "vent" and "éventrer": Wind or breath leaving a body in shock. And so both. A diplomatic mission and a scandal. A neighbor and an alien in disguise. Winter both the lover undressing a Sycamore and an Anaconda strangling mamal bones. Both the Saturday I met you and the Stonehenge circle your teeth bit into my arm.

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