We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage / And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, / We Poets of the proud old lineage / Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why ... (James Elroy Flecker)

11.4.20

The Non-Human Factor

The Non-Human Factor

Now we can make robots
of great size and strength.
They can perform 
all useful functions.
We can even train them
to play the saxophone.

But why is it that a robot,
playing that instrument
in a perfectly programmed
replica of great music, 
has never reduced an audience
to spontaneous tears of delight?

Written for April 2020, Day 11: Soviet Kitsch. 
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5 comments:

  1. Susie Clevenger12 April 2020 at 01:55

    That's for sure...You can't have live music without life.

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  2. Kerry O'Connor12 April 2020 at 02:25

    Yes, indeed! Music, art, poetry requires soul!

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  3. Sanaa Rizvi12 April 2020 at 02:44

    This is absolutely brilliant, Rosemary!💝 There will always be a stark distinction between human and non human factor 😍😍

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  4. Jim12 April 2020 at 10:21

    I like this, Rosemary. Robots make me smile. I'm sure engineers are working to make robots with artificial intelligence.
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  5. Kim M. Russell12 April 2020 at 18:20

    Science can be amazing, but you can't replace the creative touch of a human.

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