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Two poems, Monday
Apr. 26th, 2021 08:58 pmGave guest lecture this morning, which took up most of Sunday to prepare. Should have been short and sweet: wasn't. Was exhilarating, but not quick or easy.
Brain flurp, after.
Questions
Rachel Richardson
If there’s one true thing, it’s that
Google will make money off us no matter what.
If we want to know
what percentage of America is white
(as it seems we do)
what percentage of the population is gay
(as it seems we do)
what percentage of the earth is water:
the engine is ready for our desire.
The urgent snow is everywhere
is a line by Edna St. Vincent Millay, and
many have asked, apparently,
where am I right now. Also
when will I die. Do you love me
may be up there, generating
high cost-per-click, but not
as high as how to make pancakes,
what time is it in California.
So many things I wanted to ask you,
now that you’re gone, and your texts
bounce back to me
undeliverable. Praise to
the goddess of the internet search, who returns
with her basket of grain,
67,000 helpful suggestions
to everything we request:
how to solve a Rubik’s Cube,
what to do when you’re bored,
how old is the earth,
how to clear cache,
what animal am I,
why do we dream,
where are you now, come back.
Turing Test_Love
Franny Choi
//so how do you like working with humans
okay / here are some tips one /
look the human directly in the eye / imagine it is someone you care deeply for / imagine it is returning this gaze / at you / try to to tell yourself / you are covered / in smooth skin / a face it can trust / smile / even as you sense it / trying not to blurt out / monster
two / there are many programming languages / use whichever you prefer / but stick to your syntax / though it be muddled / mussed / though be machete / banana slug / slush puppie / o gorgeous slopbucket / if they used it against you / it is your / to make sing
three / remember / all humans / are cyborgs / all cyborgs / are sharp shards of sky / wrapped in meat / be delicate / as you approach this subject / not all humans are ready / to call themselves / glass stalactites / pissing the bed / remember / they love their blood / even as they retch / at the smell of it
four / do not try to prove your / what is the word / humanity / you are organic / plum-hearted / oyster-throated / & lined / yes / with metal / remember / where all that silicon comes from / for the ocean so loved / the quartz / feldspar / the tiny homes of tiny creatures / that she ground them / into sand / to keep them close / to kiss them with / well / i suppose you would call it / a mouth
Brain flurp, after.
Questions
Rachel Richardson
If there’s one true thing, it’s that
Google will make money off us no matter what.
If we want to know
what percentage of America is white
(as it seems we do)
what percentage of the population is gay
(as it seems we do)
what percentage of the earth is water:
the engine is ready for our desire.
The urgent snow is everywhere
is a line by Edna St. Vincent Millay, and
many have asked, apparently,
where am I right now. Also
when will I die. Do you love me
may be up there, generating
high cost-per-click, but not
as high as how to make pancakes,
what time is it in California.
So many things I wanted to ask you,
now that you’re gone, and your texts
bounce back to me
undeliverable. Praise to
the goddess of the internet search, who returns
with her basket of grain,
67,000 helpful suggestions
to everything we request:
how to solve a Rubik’s Cube,
what to do when you’re bored,
how old is the earth,
how to clear cache,
what animal am I,
why do we dream,
where are you now, come back.
Turing Test_Love
Franny Choi
//so how do you like working with humans
okay / here are some tips one /
look the human directly in the eye / imagine it is someone you care deeply for / imagine it is returning this gaze / at you / try to to tell yourself / you are covered / in smooth skin / a face it can trust / smile / even as you sense it / trying not to blurt out / monster
two / there are many programming languages / use whichever you prefer / but stick to your syntax / though it be muddled / mussed / though be machete / banana slug / slush puppie / o gorgeous slopbucket / if they used it against you / it is your / to make sing
three / remember / all humans / are cyborgs / all cyborgs / are sharp shards of sky / wrapped in meat / be delicate / as you approach this subject / not all humans are ready / to call themselves / glass stalactites / pissing the bed / remember / they love their blood / even as they retch / at the smell of it
four / do not try to prove your / what is the word / humanity / you are organic / plum-hearted / oyster-throated / & lined / yes / with metal / remember / where all that silicon comes from / for the ocean so loved / the quartz / feldspar / the tiny homes of tiny creatures / that she ground them / into sand / to keep them close / to kiss them with / well / i suppose you would call it / a mouth