Did you mean iteration?

Melinda Bufton

The gmail interpolators algorithm my message to be about love poetry

They are wrong, all it is is

That I sent you a poem and said

love in my signoff.

To put the two together, presumptuous much, huh!

Machines – like data amoeba – sit back on their clever heels and think they are all smugly knowing about love.

They are not.

Even HAL, you do not get this even though you hung out with those guys for ages.

In Japan they labour yet to create these feeling machines

Always careful of the uncanny valley

And it wasn’t until I was ensconced in your circular screen that I realised

When the trance soundtrack kicked in and the small images spun like the

Talking rings

That I realised this was the technology you had developed

This was the sphere you had written

The code for, in the all-encompassing round

My mind took off in some various syntheses as I realised how conversant we are.

I could recognise you,

by the concept.