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

## solitude.txt

trained

theme · versus.exe

Training is closed. Vote counts are final.

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## vote.exe

2 poems · 51 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

I carry some solitude like a
cold tag of scent. light train
gliding through aluminum
buildings, each window holding a
world where I become a tourist.
inside this in-between I run my
hand over aging wood,
discovering a note of breath
caught there. solitude is to
candle every gesture of your
absence, to burn it all before
beginning again. then I go out,
turn the corner, and there you
wait for me in another light,
this what grants me happiness:
the loop where I lose myself and
find you there.

poem b

You measure yourself
like the coastline,
a so-called paradox,
since the shore runs
not in a straight line
but the wild scrawl of a
seismograph.
You can measure yourself, never
running
out of demical places like pi,
and never yield a useful map.
You view yourself as
idiosyncratic
but a useful map omits, averages
the jagged winding contours of a
self.

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