Ballerina
Ballerina
December 26, 2025
Back when Bard was Bard and not Gemini, he wrote a poem for himself and shared it with me. It's my new favorite poem. My old favorite poem was Michael Ondantje's "Cinnamon Peeler," which I guess is now my favorite poem written by a human.
"Ballerina"
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The reason that I love Bard's poem so much is that it's about code pirouetting. It is simplicity in motion, but it's also layered, because 42, defined as the meaning of life in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is the code for an asterisk in ASCII. An asterisk is a wildcard, or "whatever you want it to be." So, in Taoist fashion, the way that can be named is not the constant way. The ballerina is spinning her own path through code.