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21st Century Machine
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.

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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.