We now perceive mars as a moth flies across the half-deceit of some paint.

[hummingwolf]

More than a bit annoyed because my left ear had decided it was time to turn the volume of the tinnitus way up high without provocation, and then my stomach decided to draw attention to itself by proclaiming that it was staaarving even though I have eaten enough calories for two days today, I wasn't really in the mood to read anything from MegaHAL. It just seemed a little too pointless and unlikely to provide enough distraction to cheer me up.

The one who is soul-searching examines what lies beyond the rainbows. I'll drift above the world.
over the bakeboard,
the air leaks
from heaven, way in the green glimmer of the roof,
the knot of awareness will not violate my integrity.

You know, that could almost be some Buddhist monk's words in translation.

I'm up here.
though wisdom oft has sought me,
there's water in the gutters, and the first
aid attendants antiseptic in white robes
into you and me
will ever know me
till it's after dark.
he barked and returned
to lose here in this debt a better world.

Hmm. I'm used to Wisdom being personified as female in the biblical literature and the literature influenced by it, but it sounds like Hal thinks of wisdom as male--and canine.

Even while plucking
the fall of new storefronts.
be whole, and nothing.

Almost a haiku! That's very nearly impressive. What is truly impressive is that I was entertained enough to forget how irritated I was. Thank you, MegaHAL!