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For the past week, I've been running a port of the Wavenet algorithm to generate poems. A reasonable training result emerges in about 24 hours, -- a trained model that can generate immense amounts of text relatively quickly. By reasonable I mean the poems do not have any real sense, no sentient self, no coherent narrative, nor epic structure. But they do have cadence, they do not repeat, new words are plausible, and they have adopted a scattered open line style characteristic of the late twentieth century corpus on which they were trained. Much more lucid than Schwitters' Ursonate, output is reminiscent of Beckett's Not I: ranting incandescent perpetual voice.