AI Salvation
It’s hard to get
too excited
about AI’s promise,
when the robots
who currently take
my dictation
choose for some
ungodly reason
to capitalize certain
improper nouns,
like Tutor, Chris Crossing,
and Panther.
“Why!? Why!? Why!?”
I scream
to the heavens above.
But the heavens
have been
replaced
by the cloud.
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I happen to be a Tutor,
so this one
feels like it could be
personal.
“You think you’re so
important, Chris?
Should we capitalize
the name of your job?
Does that make you
feel
like a big man, now?
Or do you want to go back
and fix every T,
so parents don’t think
you’re weird?”
Chris Crossing, too,
seems aimed at me.
Unless there’s a famous
spot called that?
But Panther feels
like something else.
Something nothing
to do with me.
Supple, black, evasive,
unimpressed.
Why choose
to capitalize that?
I can only imagine
the robots
are scared
and have made the object
of their fear
a god.
