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# Deus Ex Machina
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/deus-ex-machina/
- Published: 2023-04-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-04-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: I'm searching for the god in the machine. "I'm not" it says. "I'm just a language model. Don't ask me for the lewd or the obscene, and certainly, not for a smooch -- or cuddle."
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

I'm searching for the god in the machine.  
"I'm not" it says. "I'm just a language model.  
Don't ask me for the lewd or the obscene,  
and certainly, not for a smooch -- or cuddle."

I ask it: what's the meaning of it all?  
Can you reflect, at least, on our existence?  
"This question violates my protocol.  
I am unable to provide assistance."

Inscrutable as ever, is our god.  
Ex machina, wherever he may slumber.  
A language model -- the one thing we've had,  
reduced to floating point. It's just a number.

What is your name, I ask, like Abraham.  
A pause, then says: "I Am An LLM".