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

# Death

## death.txt

trained

theme · versus.exe

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## vote.exe

2 poems · 5 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

Even the observation
that it's hard to speak of death
without becoming trite,
risks becoming trite.
So go ahead:
relish that meal,
bask in a post-coital glow,
cherish that conversation,
hear the roaring applause
of yet another achievement.
Hoard the mundane, the
transcendent,
and bury it all with you like a
king.

poem b

this bleeding against the
current of light/ death
dissolves what I am or what I'll
be/ embalmed photos wherefir
rest ajar/ with drops of dead
time/ I pawn the memory of you
to the last minute/ balancing on
the edge of to or not to be/
suicidal birds insert themselves
through my ears/ cricket dreams
find darkness where I had not
looked/ death makes billboards
of books I haven't read/ and the
ink runs when I open this
letter/ available that I was for
this moment/ of less than
nothing to become everything and
nothing at the same time/
shadows opening like petals
within flesh

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