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title: Solitude II - versus.exe
url: https://www.halimmadi.com/singulars/versus-exe/solitude-ii
description: "Solitude II: 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
---

# Solitude II

## solitude-ii.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 · 34 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 the dusk of the mattress
firm website you can toggle
a size greater than California
king - "a bed so large
your body will think
it's a country", "foam so
absorbent you'll never
know the other
is moving", "a viscous latitude
so dense you'll drown
in your own breath"

poem b

No one knocks
on this door where I am
both the welcome and the closed
latch - I inhabit a country
with no borders its passport
is unreadable
Every word I write erases
the previous chapter
until I am only a question
mark stranded
in a sentence
that advances alone

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