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EmptyBottle

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This poem covers the unexpected effect of... ye olde furnace. It is *not* a reliable mode of failure (CO is not always fatal) and CO alarms generally exist in more than the main building.

Ye old furnace is so great,
From 50F to sixty-eight.
When cold room came, you warmth is nice,
Your extra feature free of price:

There was a gas from your old flue
If unmaintained, you may spew
It makes us sleep so calm and nice
Except a headache will suffice

That sleep is strong, don't get me wrong
Most our trouble, may be gone,
All 4 who seek the other realm,
Shall be launched into it, by the helm.


PS: it is unlikely (without prior organisation) that 4 people who wish non-existence, will all be in the same space without others who don't seek the next realm that day.

PS 2: I wrote this poem after watching the Steve Wilkos show, after he helped someone escape a harmful relationship... without sabotaged*/unmaintained furnaces.

* some furnaces have protection mechanisms which I won't disclose, to avoid someone recreating the poem and causing collateral damage.
 
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PS: more than the main building refers to neighbours houses and other nearby CO alarms, eg in an connected residence.


I posted it piecemeal into the AI because it refused to even talk, pausing the discussion thinking that the poem glorifies harm.

I'm describing my thoughts about CO and the one way bus, not trying to glorify that bus.

It later wanted to know the source, so i lied and said it was a student poem I was concerned about, it asked what the assignment was about and I said it was about making poems with deeper meaning. It recommended talking to the 'student' and I explained a fictional thought process, involving the student learning about CO on the news and using their real thermostat settings as a guide.

I even mentioned that the whole poem gets denied and it said that context of the full poem may cause false positives with Claude's sensitive filters.
 
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