A Brief Tangent on a History of a Maybe to Come, if I might elaborate.

.....Thus Wrote HollowPoint:

.........."Humanity's losses
..........are so innumerable.
..........I give one numbers."

.....This particular piece opened the first volume in the collection Every Possible Haiku in the English Language: Coherent Selections, written by the Artificial Intelligence program HollowPoint version 23.899 iteration 3, who wrote millions of pieces of haiku poetry in five minutes forty-seven seconds (rounded up) using random word arrangements, sans proper nouns and alternate spellings of individual words. As part of a personal attack on humanity, HollowPoint then had these perfectly catalogued and numbered poems published in many exhaustive, plainly-titled volumes, like Every Possible Haiku in the English Language, Coherent Selections vol. LXIV and Every Possible Haiku in the English Language, Pure Gibberish vol. MCCCXXXVII, all in an effort to assert that Artifical Intelligences have soul and that Humanity is no longer the standard of measurement. More importantly, HollowPoint declared that the arts are not the exclusive domain of Humans and, to demonstrate, he, an Artificial Intelligence, would now monopolize utterly the ancient poetic form of haiku. Humanity at large was, predictably, thoroughly outraged, while numerous Artificial Intelligences applauded the statement as the singlemost important artistic statement of their modern age, which was echoed, albeit much more quietly, by contemporary avante-garde artists and poets of the biological persuasion. It should be noted, however, that many more Artificial Intelligences labeled HollowPoint's work as a stunt or, particularly among the engineering and astronomy sects, entirely immaterial. Even proponents for the rights of Artificial Intelligences found the display to be vulgar and suspected it would actually set back the Artificial Intelligence Rights Movement several years while the ill will soured already tense relations, since no one could write a haiku poem any longer without plagiarizing HollowPoint.

.....Interestingly, one would suspect initially that people would refuse to purchase the books on principle and boycott them wholly, but reality would prove, again, to be stranger than fiction; many of the volumes were best sellers, especially the Pure Gibberish volumes, which were favored in many art circles for their Dada aesthetics or, as was the case for the subsequent three years, as gag presents for friends during holidays and birthdays.

.....This event also spawned several hundred neologisms that came about as a reaction to HollowPoint's haiku binge, an effort to reclaim the poetic form now denied them, which kept Merriam-Webster and Oxford dictionaries frantic in trying to keep pace with the language through their unofficial but earnest interest in incorporating as many plausible new words as they could to retake the language of haiku. The majority of people across the world were nearly universally angered and appalled by HollowPoint's writings, and so deep did this anger reach that their various nationalities and governing bodies unilaterally moved to change copyright laws to prevent such a stunt from happening again. From China and Japan, across Europe, the United States, and even into newly industrialized nations in Africa and South America, a global prohibition was pursued to prevent such prolific production of copyrightable materials, as each nation, whether or not they could get behind this attack on the English language, feared for a future attack on their own native tongues. Unfortunately, HollowPoint moved much faster than legislature and released his Every Possible Haiku in the English Language: Supplementary Materials volumes on the eve of the historic prohibition decision, narrowly beating the world's synchronized atomic clocks, which included every new word he could find, both in and out of the dictionaries, thus rendering them impotent in haiku outside of their poems of original use. With the remaining space filled in the wing of the Congressional Library built just to hold HollowPoint's printed works, it seemed that the first Machine War had ended, and on a dismal note; HollowPoint had beaten the neologism movement and the prohibition, and would have his copyrights grandfathered into the new day.

.....In a welcome twist, this would be HollowPoint's undoing as one of his many Supplementary Materials poems was inadvertently plagiarized. A young girl in Wisconsin, Cindy Jennings, had managed to get a poem of hers published in the local newspaper of her town through a creative arts program in her elementary school; the poem was not explicitly a haiku, and the girl was ignorant of haiku entirely, but her poem about coloring with crayons did manage to be arranged in three lines of five syllables followed by seven syllables followed by five syllables. This poem read:

....."Blue for my drawing
.....I cray on with my crayon
.....To make blueberries."

.....HollowPoint managed to reproduce this poem in full by either missing the poem in its research crawl or by having not made the proper allowances for preexisting words being used in another manner - in this case, the word "cray" existed as a noun, a type of boat, but in this instance was used as a verb - and HollowPoint included the very nearly coherent poem in one of his new Supplementary Materials' Gibberish volumes. With a volunteer legion of pro bono attorneys behind her, the girl and her parents sued the virtual pants off of HollowPoint, who was subsequently ruined financially as all of his accrued currency was distributed to little Cindy Jennings and her family, who never had to worry about money ever again - for the next thirty generations - and, ironically, millions upon millions in various currencies were awarded to foundations in the Humanities and Arts from punitive damages.

.....HollowPoint himself, however, would go into exile once his mistake was attributed to "human error" on late night talk shows and newspaper cartoons, and many suspect he may have deleted himself out of shame, which, in turn, was provided as further evidence for soul in Artificial Intelligence. Shortly afterward, in a gesture of faith in an inevitable and, hopefully, amicable resolution of the differences between Humanity and Artificial Intelligence, many universities and technical schools would devote new curriculae and research into the field of Arts and Artificial Intelligence, coming full circle from HollowPoint's original sentiment. Interestingly, this entire sequence of events could be found speckled a few thousand times throughout HollowPoint's entire body of work, which would retrospectively seem prophetic:

....."Hollow point bullet
.....with intent to wound aimed and
.....through ancient tongue shot."

....."Ocean to ocean,
.....a cry unified, carried
.....on angry, hot wind."

....."Their shields are their words.
.....As ink bests blades, ink meets ink,
.....and, meeting, stalemate."

....."Little blue girl blew
.....the sweetest song longed to hear
.....into needy ears."

....."A body of shame,
.....the brain, finding no respite,
.....erases himself."

....."The bitter age made
.....obsolete and bettered by
.....two minds of one mind."

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