Today's prompts from Write Better Poetry and NaPoWriMo: "Write a form and/or anti-form poem," and (2) "write a poem that...bridges (whether smoothly or not) the seeming divide between poetry and technological advances."
I know the tech topic I chose is "low-hanging fruit," but I still had fun satirizing it, and I picked the villanelle form because in a way it reflects the frustratingly cyclic nature of so many automated customer service menus.
Customer Service
Welcome to Megacorporation Inc.!
Para Español, oprimo uno.
We’ll solve your problems as quick as a wink!
Press 2 if your favorite color is pink.
Press 3 if you live in Nome or Juneau.
We care at Megacorporation Inc.
Press 4 if you need a new kitchen sink.
Press 5 to hear “We Don’t Talk About Bruno.”
We’ll solve your problems as quick as a wink!
We’ll transfer you to our chatbot named Link.
He’s AI, and he knows more than you know.
“Hi! Welcome to Megacorporation Inc.!
I’ll help you out, but give me time to think…”
[Hold music plays, courtesy of Suno.]
“There, I solved your problem! Emoji wink!”
We hope this helped, but would you say we stink?
Take our short survey—we’d really like to know!
Thanks for calling Megacorporation Inc.,
Where problems are solved as quick as a wink!
Para Español, oprimo uno.
We’ll solve your problems as quick as a wink!
Press 3 if you live in Nome or Juneau.
We care at Megacorporation Inc.
Press 5 to hear “We Don’t Talk About Bruno.”
We’ll solve your problems as quick as a wink!
He’s AI, and he knows more than you know.
“Hi! Welcome to Megacorporation Inc.!
[Hold music plays, courtesy of Suno.]
“There, I solved your problem! Emoji wink!”
Take our short survey—we’d really like to know!
Thanks for calling Megacorporation Inc.,
Where problems are solved as quick as a wink!
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