Kabul, and: Zero, and: Scarcity, and: Unnatural Intelligence

Abstract: “Kabul” describes the rushed evacuation of Kabul in rhymed quatrains. Keywords: Kabul, war, politics, Taliban. “Zero” riffs on the significance, personal and philosophical, of the poem’s mysterious, mystical titular number. Keywords: Mathematics, zero, number. “Unnatural Intelligence” explores the irony of human beings proving they are human to a nonhuman entity humans have created. Keywords: AI, computers, human, artificial intelligence, singularity.” Scarcity” meditates wistfully on how not getting enough of what we love makes what we do have that much more precious. Keywords: Don Giovanni, scarcity, economics, time.