4 November 2025
The title is reused from a different poem written 20 years ago.

shambolic aria

if sam’s ai discovers new science then i’ll riposte with how burnt music doesn’t  /  doze all it needs to quip off  /  exotic birds  /  missionaries to air’s improbable

bending  /  while life  /  randomly rubs in transmission  /  and i rub it in

to your ears  /  but is this a slam video event?  /  shoot from the second floor en suite then run  /  arms of the white-gum-oyster-bay-pine-she-oak-native-

cherry  /  attempting the blackwood  /  the way of the window  /  after dry years blasé  /  battling  /  the myths you march on  /  algo girl  /  simulator

your cold toes tiles  /  i don’t think  /  more like a micro drama a malady deep ends your view

down  /  to the salt earth  /  pan  /  to the kinetic  /  wars of the insects  /  their microscopically protruded  /  paraphernalia  /  a female mosquito messages  /  prospective  /  mates  /  i could

learn from this if i cared but my bomb squads busy their robots  /  slip through the wreckage  /  defuse  /  defuse  /  an occasional  /  bang  /  advance praise is enough i  /  wish you were here

a project in gaza a samson to shear the  /  scowling blond bush off my  /  here’s my  /  memory again  /  deep in night territory grimace in dark or  /  contrite i don’t care for an answer

equations become obfuscatory  /  with time i will dream in the daylight  /  in  /  time would be better  /  my time not your time maestro the cosmic  /  whatever

tingles reminds me the beard of night tickles an answer the flush of a perfect cheek sliced with a thought crimson the sound of it stinging my ears an avant-garde orchard dazed in despair its

answers pile in a basket  /  a still life with sugary dew  /  a scrawl of mould  /  dust on a cornice  /  metaphors for the delectation of  /  the rich turned  /  poor

and turfed out into the  /  poly  /  sensory  /  dimensionality of  /  the bird din exquisitely slowed to human speed  /  a swallow over the stream  /  dart in the dusk  /  dip to an insect snatch in beak from the air  /  crack in bits  /  swallow  /  all metres of flight her brain art a veil for the night  /  but will

mistress singfunny’s  /  squawkestral diamonds  /  confuse a white airbrushed  /  crash track irreverent today  /  as

on this deck at this elevation with this angle morning waves park suns that blow dazzle tops  /  blare down their burning face  /  once in a century sees this and amalfi goes dim

by contra reason  /  compete  /  daily drip drink for all talks  /  uncork seemly bottles  /  their grave refrigerant  /  obliged or  /  egotistical  /  in its popular sense

this searchlight shrieks photons  /  this dull kid brights out  /  switches on  /  opens  /  the freezer their heart  /  to see what’s there  /  life

in dreams of no allure  /  its dead meat i mean  /  and dead in deed as in the substance  /  so sing forth

profusely  /  while you may  /  this plastic park  /  and every tree in it steel  /  every child new  /  and every day  /  one

‘Simultaneous localisation and mapping’ (SAM) is the computational problem of constructing or updating a map of an unknown or changing environment – for example, as used by autonomous vehicles and vacuum cleaners to navigate.

SAM can also stand for the ‘Segment Anything Model’ by Meta AI, designed for image segmentation. It can cut out or segment any object in an image with a single click using various input prompts. SAM is used in computer vision for tasks like object detection, data labelling, content creation, AR/VR, and scientific research.