Five trillion synapses
Suffer a power outage.
The neurons fail.
The computer has no hard drive.
Data is irretrievable.
There was no backup.
But wait.
How did electricity
Appreciate the fragrance of a rose?
How did negative reinforcement
Become suffering?
Whatever made kindness
Better than brutality?
Maybe we’re more
Than ordered circuitry.
It doesn’t seem likely,
But it’s also improbable
That the sunrise
Should look the way it does.
It's magic.
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