Charade

Charade

 

 

a poetic dog

wandered into my yard

with his A.I. verse

to which I am averse

 

I threw stones at him to shoo him away

then went back to my Poulin Anthology

to read the cool cats from the fifties and sixties

the Beats who wrote "Howl"

and growled with realism

 

their poetry was a vein running towards their heart

 

                                                   carrying blue blood 

     

an artery spilling away with ironic thunder

 

as a maze to amaze 

no flattery needed to tell them they were great

they just wrote and barked to anyone 

who would listen

 

Now the fake poets

should be made to eat their "Fresh Pet"

real food

real poetry

that is invited into our yard

to retrieve some of the fresh community

of artists who did their own thing

 

and hopefully,

rid current poetry

of the kibbles and bits of

written preservatives.

 

erin-cilberto

8/25/25

Reviews

[Soulii]

Even though I am young, and was very much born into a technical age (with A.I. becoming as prominent as EVER as I approach my adult years), I still find myself quite offput by the use of A.I. in creative avenues. It takes away the exact elements in which make poetry the meaningful prose and stories and questions and all the above exactly what it is--human expression.

I appreciate this piece more than anything else I've read recently, because it's a poem that must be written.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you for your words, Soulii...maybe there is use for AI...but as you said, not in creative avenues.
It is an insult to those of us who actually write our own works.
j.

[Davidgeo]

There are a couple of writers here who use AI not just for poetry or fiction but as a reviewing fanbase.

This place is supposed to be "below" that kind of thing. I prefer this site specifically because it was too small to attract that kind of thing. But... of course everything has to be ruined. Everything on the internet has to be enshitified eventually. It's like a law or something.

The dead internet theory is becoming not just a theory anymore.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I almost think using it to review is worse than using it to write poetry.
Thanks, David.
read moreI almost think using it to review is worse than using it to write poetry.
Thanks, David.
j.

[Davidgeo]

Have you heard about the recent AI chatbot induced suicides? It's... dystopian. I made the mistake of reading through some of the interactions and oh my, chatbots are the literal devil.

[Davidgeo]

Judge Holden would be impressed

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Yes, I have heard about them, haven't read any, but heard. A.I. has no heart, never will...and it is like a cold steel blade stabbing away all our feeling, until it is totally dead.
j.

[Davidgeo]

Are you a Cormac McCarthy fan by any chance?

[jacob erin-cilberto]

No, but you made me look him up...he sounds interesting, but he is compared to Faulkner and Melville, two authors I just cannot stand.
I still might check him out.
j.

[Davidgeo]

Have you ever heard of a movie called "No Country For Old Men"?

[Davidgeo]

The movie is better than book for the most part. But there is another book by Cormac I'm hoping to convince you to read. Blood Meridian. I would like to hear your thoughts on that.

[redzone]

a BIG f'ken AMEN, Jacob. Let's kick those curs to the curb. As I read your poem I remembered when we had a dog, no kibbles and bits for her, she ate real food, dinner scraps, and my kids made sure she got her veggies too. Half pure huskey, half shep, and she would have eaten those AI poets alive (I mean their poems). I think there are some poets who still "do their own thing", just not enough of them. But in my opinion, Jacob, you are one of them.
-Curt

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I put two of my titles into A.I..
IN ten seconds, I had two poems. That fast.
They had the form of poems, but were cold. So third person, so stiff...not one bit of heart.
thank you
j.