What I’m Doing Right Now
Telling myself to write a poem about
a cat. I’m not responding. But AI
would do it for a click. In that case, why
am I competing? Well, there is no doubt
that AI doesn’t do a very good
John Donne impersonation. Probably
its Thomas Hardy can’t be understood
by anyone without a PhD.
AI could do a passable Gail White
in verse perhaps, but I still like to think
I’ve got that job locked up. That I could write
better than some computer with a link
to everything. At least for one more day.
My cat says she’s indifferent either way.
Gail White is a contributing editor to Light. Her latest chapbook, Paper Cuts, is reviewed here. She has devoted her life to poetry, and consequently lives in genteel poverty on the banks of Bayou Teche.