Magic

 Magic


Created by Aubrey Lieberman in collaboration with ChatGPT 5.2 turbo


March 2026


A magician steps onto the stage

lights dim

coins vanish

a woman floats in air

a deck of cards

complies with the impossible


The audience gasps


The magician appears

to have violated the laws

that govern the universe


But everyone knows

deep down

that all of this

is an illusion


An illusion

they are usually

incapable of explaining


Hence the applause


Outside the theater

in the desert southwest

a lizard’s venom

contains peptides so precisely shaped

that they lock molecular switches

in another animal’s body


The fight ends

and the prey succumbs


This predator will need

to eat again next month


Inside every animal cell

mitochondria burn oxygen

according to

a choreography of proteins

inherited from our

bacterial ancestors

which learned this trick

billions of years ago


The immune system

recognizes enemies

it has never encountered

and remembers those it has


Atoms become galaxies

and then become us

on their journey

back to the stars


There are countless other acts


Scientists create no magic

but they open the curtain

and astonish us with

a fourteen billion year old

magic show

which is where all the bells

and all the whistles

actually reside


When you wake each morning

applaud the sunrise




Footnote: For this experiment I put all of the basic ideas into the prompt and challenged the AI to turn it into a poem. It didn't do well! I reworked it into this and re-presented it. It provided a few helpful tweaks and edits and a really good evaluation of the merits. Poems require human to human resonance. 

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