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Chatgpt

ChatGPT, what have you for me today?
Have you a novel up your sleeve?
Or an update to my resume 
Embellishing my work career?

Perhaps you’ve got an epic in the works – 
I understand that there are other perks
When enlisting you for other needs
– I sometimes struggle, honestly,
To find a real good book to read;
Great literature with a small degree
Of international mystery – could I trust
You’d recommend some works for me 
That wouldn’t be a bust?

And what of art and music, poetry?
I’ve heard you can essay on anything –
But would you have the touch, on whole
To create something that is – say – wonderful?
That involves a little heart and soul,
Something splendid, great – magnifico!?
– After all, you’re but a man-made bit-machine
Not a fragile, sentient being – 

AI rumblings online and in the air
– At least the little that I see and hear –
Speak of you and your great disruptive wave
Coming our way, some say with fear – 
Well, it’s all up to us, I guess
To choose how to deploy – for good or bad –
Which doesn’t bode very well for us, in the end
Based on past performances, my friend – 

Nevertheless, I wouldn’t be inclined
To have you write a verse of poetry
I’d turn around and claim as mine
– I do take pride in originality!

And I wouldn’t quite be satisfied
With the lack of mental – and creative – exercise 
It takes for me to compose each day
Were you ever to displace, and take away
The liberty I have to write
The likes of this I wrote today –

Copyright © John Oldham | Year Posted 2023

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