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7/20/2024 for Eight Words Poetry Contest sponsored by Joseph May 

Silence permeates a desolate landscape. Fossil fuels and nukes laid waste to everything we knew, everyone we loved, now unnaturally erased. Yet, a cozy, rustic, little cottage stands. A child's scrawl says, "Mom you're awesome!" next to pictures on the refrigerator door. A vase holds a red rose blossom. Pixels emanate from a silicon brain, swirling into a hologram, a three-dimensional synthetic scene, Proclaiming, falsely, "this I am". This scene is played for centuries and eons hence. Because of men's delusion, there's no one to see this timeless projection, an AI-produced illusion.

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Date: 7/29/2024 1:21:00 PM
Congratulations on your win David. I hope this never happens too. Your words gave good imagery. Emilia : )
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David Crandall
Date: 7/29/2024 9:06:00 PM
Thanks Emilia!
Date: 7/27/2024 1:02:00 PM
Wow! It is like a movie scene hopefully notto be reality…the pretense of a rustic cottage placed at AI center. Congrats on your clever write!
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David Crandall
Date: 7/27/2024 10:58:00 PM
Thanks Kim! - writing about my fears - hopefully not reality!
Date: 7/27/2024 10:24:00 AM
Oh how intriguing! So glad you earned first place! Xoxo
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David Crandall
Date: 7/27/2024 10:55:00 PM
Thanks Crystol :-) :-)
Date: 7/27/2024 8:26:00 AM
'timeless'. Congratulations dear poet. amazing write.
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David Crandall
Date: 7/27/2024 9:41:00 AM
Thanks Thriveni!
Date: 7/27/2024 5:01:00 AM
Congrats on your win, Very nicely penned
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David Crandall
Date: 7/27/2024 9:41:00 AM
Thanks Joseph, and thanks for your 8 words - it was fun.
Date: 7/23/2024 5:27:00 AM
Ooh this is thought provoking. Would have made a nice entry for my AI contest
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David Crandall
Date: 7/23/2024 8:08:00 AM
Thanks Tom!
Date: 7/20/2024 8:44:00 PM
I'll know if I'm living in a hologram. If the housework is done, it's fake. Lol. I like your futuristic poem.
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David Crandall
Date: 7/20/2024 8:51:00 PM
haha - good comment - thanks!

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