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Further details here: https://literaturetodayjournal.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_11.html

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On this day in 1965, The Beatles’ Eight Days a Week single goes #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart and stays #1 for 2 weeks

In September of last year I self-published a small poetry collection of ‘caboose’ poems which I had great fun researching and writing. The cover and one other image inside were provided by ChatGPT – visual poems related to the booklet’s theme and content, and this a continuation of my occasional collaboration with this AI.

Over the last two weeks I have been writing further poems – still engaged with and enjoying the ‘idea/s’ around the caboose.  Using descriptions of types found online, the following is a list poem that pairs these up with alternative versions, linking also to a Derrida thread in the collection,

When typing in Word, the Microsoft AI Copilot logo is always visible to use as a possible prompt writing device/tool, and I have been exploring this over recent months since it first appeared without warning (for me): there are previous posts on this blog about those initial explorations; as are ones about ChatGPT going back.

At this point, I gave Copilot a prompt to rewrite my list poem, I think as a story (I need to copy and keep my prompts) and I do like the creative way it uses my alternative caboose types as well as imagines a ‘Caboose Deity’,

Having created this ‘fable’ of its own, I then gave Copilot a prompt to write another using the above and linked to the Trump/Vance ambush of Zelenskyy in the Oval Office (a leap, I know, but I was in the mood). Here it is,

It’s fascinating stylistically – though no surprise to ape/adapt from its vast dadtabase (!) of ‘fable’ models – but it didn’t actually bring out the horror/disgust/anger I was hoping for. I gave it another prompt with more explicit references to ‘President Trump’ and ‘Vice-President Vance’ in the hope it would draw on and use the emotive resonances of the encounter, and although there are elements of this, it’s still more genre over analysis/criticsm,

There is, I suppose, a rather twee moral tone of good triumphing over bad here, and I do quite like the notion of ‘sacred cabooses’.

It hasn’t helped me yet to write my ‘caboose ambush’ poem, but I’m working at it…

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Full House Literary published my poem above in December, 2023, and the following is a continuation on that ‘theme’:

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‘Poetry and art, like quantum systems, exist in states of entanglement, uncertainty, and transformation. Meaning is not fixed but shifts with perspective, collapsing and reforming like a wave in motion.

Entangled Verses: Poetry and Art on the Quantum Edge explores this intersection—where language and image defy singular truths, where observation alters the work itself, and where creativity thrives in the unknown. This online journal is for those who embrace instability, paradox, and the infinite unfolding of meaning.’

~ Laura Kerr, Canadian Artits & Poet; editor of ‘Entagled Verses’

My thanks to Laura for including my TextArt exploration Double Slit Experiment in this vibrant anthology.

Read the collection here: https://sedserio.com/entangled-verses-poetry-and-art-at-the-quantum-edge-copy

With thanks to IT and Rupert for posting my poem today. You can read it here: https://internationaltimes.it/acquaintance/