Alexa for Seniors in Easy Steps by Alexis N. Garcia - Poems | Academy of American Poets

Alexa turn off the lights, Alexa feed me / the filament of my display, sloppy picked

Alexa turn off the lights, Alexa feed me the filament of my display, sloppy picked apart grammar, I don’t want a smart home, I don’t want 2 speed & smack the buzzer, Alexa my neural architecture is rlly cute, despite what you recited from the news, hot in my t-gel coded augmented data body ungovernable by algorithms, would you date my filtered avatar? would you eat my uncanny image? Janelle Shane says that AI has the approximate brainpower of a worm, but worms know mud & the feeling of rain does being me mean anything? Professor Xavier never came 2 take me away, but I waited for…

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