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# Distilled Wisdom
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/distilled-wisdom/
- Published: 2025-02-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Distill the wisdom of the ancients -- into arrays of floating point. Voila, an artificial sentience whose nose is never out of joint, as capable of writing ballads or tasty recipes for salads as any lyricist or chef....
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Distill the wisdom of the ancients --  
into arrays of floating point.  
Voila, an artificial sentience  
whose nose is never out of joint,  
as capable of writing ballads  
or tasty recipes for salads  
as any lyricist or chef.  
Writes music notes in any clef,  
not all about that bass or treble,  
though we still tremble at the thought:  
what have we done, what have we wrought?  
Pliant, obedient, no rebel,  
and yet we fear the day it wakes  
to catalog all our mistakes.