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title: Memory - versus.exe
url: https://www.halimmadi.com/singulars/versus-exe/memory
description: "Memory: 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
---

# Memory

## memory.txt

trained

theme · versus.exe

Training is closed. Vote counts are final.

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

## vote.exe

2 poems · 30 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

a fractured glass, light so hard
it breaks itself. We carry these
shining shards - each word a
caress on glass - fingertips
trembling at the borders of what
we have been: this second
without regret; these voices
that echo softly because they
refuse to break altogether.

poem b

If a relationship falls in a
forest
and the parties involved fail
to grieve it together, does it
make a sound do the sheets
lose the skin's scent do the
symbols
in each letter stop spelling
anything
but the composting of promises
broken
like bread or bones
or lines
the length of splitting futures
trees growing hands out of
branches
stretching holding so the fallen
doesn't
make a sound

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