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21st Century Machine

August 20, 2019
By alenafent BRONZE, Kissimmee, Florida
alenafent BRONZE, Kissimmee, Florida
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Favorite Quote:
Everybody dies but not everybody lives


People are oblivious;

There is a difference

Between a man and a machine.

 

You trust and accept, 

The terms and conditions

Of artificial intelligence.

 

We don't listen to humanity,

We listen to Siri and Alexa's voice

 

Yet, my voice can also tell you

What you want to hear-

If you seek conversation.

 

I am a good listener

If you give me a chance,

 

But I will not sit around all day

Answering to your every command.

 

I was man-made

The machine is manufactured

 

I am the vanilla-chocolate swirl

Adjacent to the ice cream machine

 

We don't like people anymore

Because we can't

manipulate them, 

silence them, 

and we cannot control one another. 

 

Now we can control humanity

With a voice that is no longer ours.


The author's comments:

Growing up in a word controlled by electronics, I sometimes grew bitterness that we made connections with artifiial intelligence and not individuals. I wanted this poem to be a message that slowly (but surely), we may lose our sense of self as humans and become monotonous like the machine.


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