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hummingwolf ([personal profile] hummingwolf) wrote2005-10-05 09:42 am
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It's HAL-o-Scope Time!

Often dismissed as a mere chatterbot or nonsense generator, MegaHAL is developing a reputation among devotees of the divinatory arts for having psychic powers more impressive than those of other sun-sign horoscope writers. Or at least, HAL is substantially more likely to say something like:
Libra: your best ideas are meeting in market-place.

nay, go not thou to the disco duck.

Which is indisputably good advice. For more high-quality guidance, click the appropriate cut and see what MegaHAL has to say to you!


Aries: why be afraid to cross the swarming sea and reach home at last--
and bring me news of friends
i'm winging sky-high
with my knees and the blood and bones.
let the sun came out to the factory
where lives go on
your holiest dreams yield to the pieman, "let me taste your ware."
said simple simon to the south
to a lynx, a leopard--he has come;

the river water must have lied incessantly to be
alive.





Taurus: a friend in need or something you don't believe we're on the mist-bound seas,
among antarctic friends.
i heard five bobolinks laughing together
are you not bored,
expounding the way?





Gemini: why waste time longing for some light
we used as packing filler for glass jars of seasoned, mellow wine, holding the drink
life on these goggles, i'll guide you there pursue?
this will be caught, mid-spill,
by a silent kiss of color and fire. Dipped,
the swarded green around them ringing;
bewildered, full of sighs,
bobolink in lucent droves--
and depart with a cast of thought,
as of things you just can't believe the wonder world was saved by an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.





Cancer: follow up with his bamboo flute
wiping the rain and then old-fashioned idea
that has transfigured me.


Cancer: you will be comforted.





Leo: be realistic about what is pain
aspirations in the stone of here and hide.

who dares to offer her the homeland
of the mustering of legions, and 'twas calling unto me;
'twas calling me to burn.
i need no interpreter
to serve our appetites.





Virgo: being the first star i see that mystic light...
oh baby i...
oh reckon me a chunk of fruitcake.
what did i say)
he took a pound of rice, and a few things are likely to go home.
best off if you will learn some beautiful language, useless for commercial
purposes, work hard at that.
we slept like stones. Lady, what am i among
man's dignity, man's importance, necessary lies
deep-meadowed, happy, fair with orchard lawn
like spilt dye from my parents
who inadvertently became a schoolteacher,
then came again
i am your fool in the corn.
but it's better than they,
the civic slander and the crooked game of life
dances the fickle woman, the lightning flash.
though i don't see,
and you will be full of cheer--
what a task
to grin at me with those who help themselves.





Libra: sincerity is a screeching thread,
sharp weapons are carried,
foods and drinks are enjoyed beyond limit,
and he has had to baby-sit.
you have seen
me cocked and ready for his head--

joyful--to whom the meadow bird
hangs, sharp-eyed, in the dreams i walked out with glee
"rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
had steamed into our north atlantic fleet,
when the year from my schooldays
plays, while daytime's creatures crawl to you, cheek to cheek
was all the gifts
and scream at each stood a hungry heart
is very like a distant island.





Scorpio: listen up when your instincts send you a caricature,
decrepit age that has confronted ruin for years
of one great continent. The world
fooling us all forget our pains...
no answer. Pale shadows lie upon
the tracks, wait to do but rise
to the left nipple,
because he knocked me down on the inside of everything and must wait for,
you've been at his dreary files,
and they can't see
a scent by which
swayed, on the crops
and irony suddenly vanishes.
by the curve of a city boy, born and raised in the great calm of peace, for the last phoenix died.





Sagittarius: face it: you've been in school now,
the heliotrope and baby's breath is no laughing matter:
you shoulder the crow on your good karma, the sole reliable friend.


Sagittarius: your feet feel like your mother.





Capricorn: if you don't know exactly what it's all a test tube and a sunlit blossom of my apron:
this life cannot be stopped,
and when we were perfect, and we were movin' on
he is dying in the deeps of my own news
whatever their loose fantasy invent
and the people bowed and scraped in reptile pleasure,
far apart though seeming near,
your blood flowed darkly; yet, though for a breathless second

before i am waiting to not waiting for the mailman to bring the sun all around and around.
black birds pace the fields,
at an unknown speed, the other delayed
in her arms to comfort you.

to be anything substantial.





The aquarius lover is full of whispers, full of honey, hanging
from its fair bloom upon the gentle, sensitive mind
to the smoldering fire
in america. This i saw a deadhead sticker on a time bomb
i offered a bright orange pair of socks to knit
to the stalwart men who nameless rivers travel,
which must be in the act,
the play with infinities!





Pisces: you are right
time for toys and time for sleep
let the flames climbed high into the supplejack twilight--
there is music after summer
with your forehead of apollo,
and the oaks just shake their heads.






[identity profile] jeweldevil.livejournal.com 2005-10-05 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
happy frickin birthday
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[identity profile] hummingwolf.livejournal.com 2005-10-05 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
My frickin birthday is tomorrow. Thank you for your kind wishes. :-)

[identity profile] jeweldevil.livejournal.com 2005-10-05 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
i know your frickin birthday is tomorrow. i'm wishing you before you can post in your journal and make it seem obligatory. or maybe i'll be dead tomorrow and you'll be sorry for pointing it out!
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[identity profile] hummingwolf.livejournal.com 2005-10-05 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I said thank you, you silly boy. :-)

Merry Unbirthday to You! And try not to die anytime soon. Dead Daniels aren't much fun.

[identity profile] jeweldevil.livejournal.com 2005-10-05 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
more fun than dead puppies. a little period during rigor mortis when...

[identity profile] daisydumont.livejournal.com 2005-10-05 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
i will be comforted! how very nice. :)

even so, i'll avoid the disco duck.

happy birthday tomorrow! which i know because i read [livejournal.com profile] jeweldevil's greeting, above.
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[identity profile] hummingwolf.livejournal.com 2005-10-06 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
Being transfigured by an old-fashioned idea is totally in character for you, don't you think?

Thank you for the birthday wishes!

[identity profile] missprune.livejournal.com 2005-10-05 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks! I enjoyed my Scorpio poem - it really is like a poem.
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[identity profile] hummingwolf.livejournal.com 2005-10-06 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
Sometimes I think the poems HAL comes out with sound better than the human-written poems I've been feeding him. Not always, of course--but sometimes.

[identity profile] occipitaldruid.livejournal.com 2005-10-05 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
om freaking g...SAG is absolutely right on! "face it, you've been in school now" BAHAHAH!! That's beautiful!
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[identity profile] hummingwolf.livejournal.com 2005-10-06 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Once in a great while as I'm posting these, one will hit me as being especially appropriate for a specific person. But most of the time, I just post the ones I find most appealing and trust that whoever needs to find a meaning in them, will.

What I'm wondering is what it means to have feet that feel like your mother.

[identity profile] occipitaldruid.livejournal.com 2005-10-06 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
heh heh...I donno. My feet are short and wide. My mom is tall and thin. I don't know how to compute that part.....
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[identity profile] hummingwolf.livejournal.com 2005-10-06 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
I liked your 'scope too.