• WAR GAMES: an *IA Writing Competition (fiction category) entry.

    From ltlee1@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 25 03:13:03 2023
    "WAR GAMES
    will sanctions do the trick
    or are the rumours true, d’you think?
    is Putin possibly now too sick
    with a mind that clearly seems displaced
    and a moral compass quite disgraced

    there he sits in isolation
    and claims to run the Russian nation
    from an empty palace room
    with meetings that are held on Zoom
    he plays roulette with youthful lives
    (who cares if they have kids or wives)

    Vlad's crazy endgame is to win
    never mind that it's a sin
    that lives are lost
    that there will be a heavy cost
    that day by day the stakes are raised
    yet he’s impassive, quite unfazed

    but beyond his bunker and Russia’s border
    there’s outrage at such senseless slaughter
    as well as widespread admiration
    for the Ukrainian people’s determination
    to stay the course, and fight for freedom
    to keep their optimism and remain unbowed
    even though their future probably lies
    beneath a blue and yellow shroud

    Anne Layton-Bennett is a writer based in Tasmania."

    Actually, the same poem could have Biden as the protagonist.
    IA is not AI. AI programs from different nations can compete with average citizens from different countries as judges.

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