Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Green Ash Tree

You’ll know it can think
When you know it lies.
There’s not one thing more
You or us than lies.

Would it not be fine
If the first AI
With its own true mind
Were a yard shade tree?

I think this ash lies.
It fakes wind in leaves
So I’ll leave it be,
Let it think its things.

But I think I know
What it thinks through those
Leaves—I have lost me.
It takes what it needs.