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

# Mortality

## mortality.txt

trained

theme · reverse.exe

Training is closed. Vote counts are final.

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## 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

the street in burning yellow an ash where lightning hovered I learn to be mortality like cousin of the wind so close to the sound of a leaf I forget to be afraid I rub mortality into the walls this marking that asks pardon who slings blood in the eye maybe a stone dissolves what dies there a melody of dust I want to remember

poem b

the one where the warmth of a mother's shrinking body is a sunset or a receding Mediterranean wave the child chases out of breath hah / come back / hah / I've / hah / barely / gasp / known / hah / you / wheeze / been / hah / away / so long / hah / I missed / hah / miss / hah / you / gasp / already

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