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September 14, 2025A poem for Poetry with McNally Jackson Bookstore.
Read at Poetry w/ McNally Jackson Bookstore at Elizabeth Street Garden.
A system with hundreds of billions of parameters, capable of performing certain intelligent tasks such as reasoning.
A human body powered by caffeine, salad, and martinis, capable of appearing put together but secretly about to fall apart.
Do we have free will, or are all our actions predictable as a sequence-to-sequence model?
Are we capable of living courageously, seeking our own truths, or just following the path of maximum likelihood?
Will I ever be enough, or am I trapped forever by this anxiety of being abandoned?
How many bones in my body? How many neurons in my brain? How many times do they signal: Hey, it’s messy over here.
How many parts in an electric car? Do you think it secretly wants to run over a human?
Is there someone behind the screen typing answers when we ask ChatGPT how many Rs are in strawberry?
Do you think they get upset getting the count wrong again and again?
Thinking. Thinking. Beeping. Booping.
Your favorite human being is loading.
But when you look under the hood, it’s all matrix multiplications. Nothing but bones.