Beautiful Generative Machine by David Fowler

last night I was in a conference room

but this time it was built

from three different jobs

one in Hong Kong one in Dallas

one in New York one from who knows

Ricky and Mel and Gracie

were there and we were building

the presentation

but all three of those humans came

from different jobs

in different cities

in different decades of my life

they never met each other

this machine cobbles chunks

of my data

combines with images I’ve seen

then slices and mushes

something up new

sometimes familiar

sometimes so fucking weird

sourced from something I’ve

seen, smelt, felt

and the only control I have

unlike generative AI

which can be queried for an answer

is that I just go to sleep

and the machine starts

without a question

being posed