---
title: Falling Out of Contact with Old Friends - reinforcement.exe
url: https://www.halimmadi.com/singulars/reinforcement-exe/falling-out-of-contact-with-old-friends
description: "Falling Out of Contact with Old Friends: one theme of reinforcement.exe, two poems, one by the poet and one by the machine, unsigned. Read them and vote."
generated: 2026-10-19
---

# Falling Out of Contact with Old Friends

## falling-out-of-contact-with-old-friends.txt

trained

theme · reinforcement.exe

Training is closed. Vote counts are final.

[reinforcement.exe](https://www.halimmadi.com/singulars/reinforcement-exe)

## vote.exe

2 poems · 85 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

In an old café, I still hear the
accents but none of the words
recognize me - verbal bones have
calcified, the future packed
away with autumn leaves. Your
voice was one irreplaceable
symphony, now I only hear its
echo in the emptiness of the
chairs. Most sins are initial,
and your name remains
capitalized in the letter I
never send.

poem b

I still call you
Mango though you're a father
of two and life's tectonics
split our continent made a
horizontal out of grief
though longing is aging
into redwood though we barely
text though we want to though
your name is Thomas

Vote on [the theme's page](https://www.halimmadi.com/singulars/reinforcement-exe/falling-out-of-contact-with-old-friends).