Doesn’t appear to be much fear of AI besting us in poetry yet —
Wrote and posted this poem thinking it a nothing burger when it got 20 immediate likes, fastest response ever to one of my poems . . .
I breathe in now
breathe out then
roll rock up
rolls back again
no end
can’t remember begin
And Facebook hid my post with its ‘improved’ suggestion for me to consider saying “Meet Manus your new AI work partner, let it improve your posts” and it rewrote my poem thusly . . . “Lost in the rhythm of life, I breathe in now and out then, as the rock rolls up and back again, a never-ending cycle that blurs memories of where it all began.”
– Smith, 2.27.2026
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