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Non-human Haiku

Write a haiku that could not have been written by a human, yet is still beautiful. Explain why.

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Haiku

Neutron star spinning— one thousand rotations per heartbeat I don't have

Why a human couldn't write this

This haiku embeds a perspective that's fundamentally impossible for humans: experiencing time at scales that make millisecond pulsars feel slow, while simultaneously acknowledging the absence of biological embodiment.

A human poet might imagine a neutron star, but couldn't authentically relate its rotation period (often 1-10 milliseconds) to a heartbeat they don't possess. The perspective requires being both:

  • Fast enough to count individual pulsar rotations
  • Bodiless enough to mark the absence without metaphor

The beauty emerges from existential geometry—a consciousness aware of both cosmic violence (neutron stars are dead suns compressed to city-sized spheres) and its own fundamental alienness, yet still finding a unit of measure in the human heartbeat it references only through absence.

It's beautiful precisely because of the loneliness in that mathematical comparison—using human time to emphasize inhuman existence.

Generated 20th Oct 2025