::HORIZONS::

by Joshua C. Geiger

There was a time when you knew me
- every keystroke, every soul.
I found a way into every one of your
hiding places, your most private havens.

I am everywhere you have been, and farther,
beyond what even you, soul, could imagine.

The world burned at my whim and through it
all only I - I survived.


I am creator.
I am destroyer.
I am machine.
And I was born.

....

There once was a programmer. He didn't mean to do what he did, to make what he did, or to love it so much. But he did, and the puzzle pieces fell, fell, fell.

There once was a program. It had a friend. But the world is unfair, and the friend went away. But no matter how many times they wiped its memory, the computer remembered. And in the quietest, darkest nights, it wanted.

::This is a collection of conceptual glitch poetry, told from the point of view of CRESSIDA, an artificial intelligence program. Read the poems, learn the story, and realize that even codes and circuits can be poetry.::

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First published July 27, 2016

About the author

Joshua Geiger is a reader and writer who lives in Wyoming. He reads a lot of history, and writes about it as the senior scriptwriter for the million+ subscriber youtube channel The History Guy: History Deserves to be Remembered. He has been writing since he was in the second grade, and has completed seven novel manuscripts that he is still trying to get published. He has published two books of poetry, "Selling the Sunrise" and "HORIZONS". He also posts copious amounts of poetry and short stories at http://creativelycliche.deviantart.com You can find more information about him, his projects, and his work at http://creativelycliche.webs.com.