Consider a Spherical Cow

What are the salient parts?
What do you have to include?
What can you risk taking out?

It’s different from prediction
When you’re really telling it.
Math models have to align

With the incoming changes
That constitute your new past.
Language models have to tune

To lingering memories
In people who have each lived
A singular, finite life.

Language models reach inside
A skull like a box of wires
That are also guitar strings,

Tangled and tuned differently
In every linguistic skull,
To try to coax chords from them,

Tunes beyond them, yet themselves,
And the modeling of chords
Must stay in those spheres of skulls.