Digital textblock based on generative text co-authored by Sasha Stiles and her AI alter ego, Technelegy. 2023. “There was this side we could not touch” is an extract from “Completion: To Write with a Running Brush,” and was first published in The Asian American Writers’ Workshop in a special edition of The Margins in April 2022. The full poem may be accessed here: https://aaww.org/completion-to-write-with-a-running-brush/. Sasha Stiles is a poet, artist and AI researcher whose work at the intersection of text and technology probes what it means to be human in a nearly post-human era. Sashastiles.com.