A.I. (Artificial intelligence, yes?)

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Open Poetry #32

A.I. (Artificial intelligence, yes?)

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Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2004-06-06 08:33 PM

This poem is in reaction to the news of this week-end. The state of Washington is banning barbecuing and natural Christmas trees for those who live in apartments or condominiums. Also, the front-page news that an Enron CEO will continue to be employed while he serves his 18 months in prison. In addition, he was paid $2million, which just happened to be the amount of restitution he was told to make. Other fringe benefits will continue as well. Farther down on the front page 3 more Oregon soldiers die in Iraq as they fight for the cause of "freedom."

A.I. (artificial intelligence)

Like a plastic Jesus
lying in a cradle of acrylic straw
you want me to abide
as if there’s no life inside

You, the “they,”
of which many laud,
yet many more complain,
want to rob from me
a natural Christmas tree

the essence of eternal life
in the evergreen scent
of needled play

are you going to send
the KGB
to come and feel
my Christmas tree?

or the CIA
to smell the hay
that lay
beneath the cradled
Babe?

the world has gone awry
when CEO’s flourish
even though their acts are boorish
and soldiers die
for freedom’s cause
while we pause
and watch
it
little by little
slip away
every day
noticing about as well
as a frog
in a kettle of bouillabaisse
as the temp is raised
and his
“goose is cooked.”

Wonder what’s for our “last supper.”

©June 6, 2004

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.