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title: Open Air Backseat - reinforcement.exe
url: https://www.halimmadi.com/singulars/reinforcement-exe/open-air-backseat
description: "Open Air Backseat: 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
---

# Open Air Backseat

## open-air-backseat.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 · 4 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

when a gasp leaves your mouth
it never returns you never
cross a river twice and my hair
will never flutter the same
way it did the summer in Beirut
we trojan horsed every club
floor we arsoned - your dad's
white Mercedes the black swan
that shrined the broken form of
wilder nights

poem b

windows roll down to better
taste the rain that forgets its
road postpone that conversation
that heat emerging from the
asphalt city that broods over
itself one-third burn one-third
breath one-third rain plump
stepchild my city's lover rinsed
in laundry water

Vote on [the theme's page](https://www.halimmadi.com/singulars/reinforcement-exe/open-air-backseat).