Justine Jones

Song of the Shells

Added 2020-09-01 05:23:02 +0000 UTC

This poem may sound really weird, and that's because it wasn't written by a person, but by an artificial neural network (with one sentence prompts in bold, by me). It's what inspired me to draw this creature, not just because of the subject, but also because of what it is, as a sort of...collective consciousness. That's why I decided on it being a Phalanx, not because of the traditional definition, but because of... the X-men definition haha.

I initially wanted to do a comic for the full poem, but then i realized instagram only lets you post 10 pages haha. But the things i posted in the comic are just sort of... teasers for the actual things.

I want to use this poem as a prompt for future things that are contained within the dream, but i'm not sticking to it entirely.

The snail sleeps and sings a song of dreams and death

Dream

of the trampled flowers

Dream

of the fallen shells

Dream

of the glass tarantula

Dream

of the trembling pine trees

Dream

of the ants crawling in and out

Dream

of the snail beds and gardens

Dream

of the strange things lying and lolling in the black and endless winter

Dream

of the star-buried yellow velvet

the snails sang a song into the wind, and pondered how the sea and the land had mated and made the world. They will die, they will perish in a kiss

My work is done, the Dragon is dead,

And I alone am the King

If you want to try and make your own weird artificial intelligence poems, you can check it out at https://inferkit.com/

When i made this poem it was totally free, but it looks like you have to pay for it now :/