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Skipping stones along a crumbling ground
How does it work with no one around?
If there is no one to read
What do I write for?
If there is no one writing
What do I read?

Ambition against the machine
Flesh gives to the metal
A pen’s work is easily destroyed
The cloud is forever

Art is human
Art is mine
But wherefore art thou reader?
When mine art is displayed?

Copyright © Hattie King | Year Posted 2026


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Date: 9/17/2026 7:02:00 PM

A poignant free-verse meditation on art, authorship, and the uneasy permanence of the digital world. The recurring questions create a haunting sense of isolation, while “Ambition against the machine” gives the poem a strong central tension between vulnerable human expression and enduring technology.

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