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This extra-long sonnet "tracks" the various ways in which AI, or artificial intelligence, now invades our online lives.
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Hive Mind
This poem imagines the hive mind, or what Star Trek lovers will recognize as “the Borg“. I first heard the expression “hive mind,” when I listened to the Ezra Klein podcast, The Ezra Klein Show, when he was interviewing Cal Newport, author of A World Without Email. Transcript of podcast. Cal Newport seemed to …
No Time
This poem talks about how we seem to have no time these days and why that might be the case.
Without a Thought
This one’s pretty self-explanatory. Describing our Brave New World, to borrow from a famous title. Thanks for coming by to read! We wake in peace. We dress in peace. We eat, with mediocrity. We tend to needs, unspeakable, Without a thought to privacy. We read a book With opaque brains. We drive, …
The Racket
This poem complains about the constant noise of modern life, and the incessant and often trivial demands for our attention. Sometimes, we just need to turn it all off. Wishing you relief, in this time of noise and bluster! For those who don’t know, Walter Cronkite was a news anchor on CBS in the …
Public Square
Perhaps I have watched too many episodes of Murdoch, a detective series set in the 1890s and early 1900’s. But I find myself yearning for a nineteenth-century point of view, where (I imagine) there would be no confusing good and bad, or wrong and right. In my high school days, we spoke with reverence …
Happy Accident
This poem is a about wasting time on social media. It asks, at what cost do we pursue such an aimless life? Hope you enjoy! By bits and slivers everyday, My choice is shaved from me. By happy accident, I browse, And lose my agency. The bits and bobs that show up On …
The Rabbit Hole
This is my homage to Alice in Wonderland, and the perennial problem of not being able to keep our attention on the important things. As you may remember, the book begins with Alice yawning at how boring her studies are, when she sees a white rabbit with a pocket watch. She follows him down …