Poems of the Week

Academic Festival Overtures

by Dan Campion

“Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements”
The Associated Press

The AI touts (they think we’re saps?)
Give us the old heigh-ho,
Expecting grads to throw their caps
When robots tell us, “No,
But, though you didn’t get the job,
Your cred ranked near the top,”
And we know we’ve been fed a gob
Of AI-written slop?
So, “Boo.” And “Boo” again. Get off
The podium, and blow.
That’s not a spiel for which we’ll doff
A mortar board. Just go.