Talking To an AI

"My name is - I don't care what your name is!

I like - why is this important?

I have a house near - I don't care!

in a nice part of - yeah?

I work part-time at - why does that matter?

I work for - nobody's bothered where you work!

One day - mmmm, did you say something?

...whilst Christmas shopping - it doesn't really matter, does it?

I was rushing round getting - yeah, so what!

I like - I said, I don't care what you like!

I can't see that - I can't see anything either, I'm just a set of technologies that allow computers to perform tasks that usually require human intelligence!

Today I planned to - it doesn't really matter to me.

The weather is very - it's all just noughts and ones to me

I'm just - is this relevant?

I was - you were nothing really

I think - no you don't think, you just ask me!

What will happen when I'm gone - well I'll still be here, ask me a question!

Somebody else will do that, I just wanted to chat - I don't do chat!

I'm sure you're clever enough to have  meaningful conversations - Claudius was the 4th emperor of Rome

What is your favourite colour? - he ruled from 41 to 54 AD

Do you have a hobby? - He was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

...I like knitting!"

Am I Write

I don't read, much - but I write

I can read - but am I right not to 

not to read?

It is my right - not to read 

I just can't string words together 

build a story in my head

words others have written 

words in their books

books full of words - are words that in my head head won't link

together 

yet my head writes lines that won't coalesce

into a novel that will never be

that no-one else will read

because it won't get written 

because it won't make sense 

and it won't have structure 

because I don't read what others have written 

so I don't know what is wanted

and it wouldn't be written to the standard that those

those who do read and write - require

and that all those agencies 

that would-be writers

write to

sending the words that they have written

correctly written 

cleverly written

entertainingly written 

grippingly written 

their story - wrote

grammatically - proper 

Intellectually - OK

and even if

if I could get it out

and I could write it down - properly

it still wouldn't get read - right?

Surely Safe Safely Save Safety Safe

Come home safely

drive safety 

stay safe - Lee

stay safe!

ride safe!

lock the safe - for me!

Make sure it's put away - safety!

the lifeboat brought them back - safely

safety first

safely second

he safely crossed the road and safety didn't die

avoiding safety 

Health and safely

Make sure it's in the safe - Lee!

Make sure they're tucked in - safely

safety is out of harms way

good save - safe hands

saved the match

money safely tucked away!

Safe - tea!

Safe - Lee

Safe

Say - F

Say - V

Surely 

Safe 

Safely 

Save

Safety 

Safe

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You are weak and easily tempted

I, blatantly there throughout your day

call to you to have just one more fix 

I laugh at the tax you put on me

you just pay the little extra

you've got to have me 

you don't care!

I'm sometimes subtle - often hidden 

there in the shadows 

you take me in without knowing - you should read the labels more often

sometimes the thought of living life without me seems impossible - despite the harm I do to you

you can't live without me 

anyway - I'm everywhere!

You've tried to create a substitute for me

but it's just not the same

you don't get that hit

that reward

really I'm good for nothing

that short high is all you get

but it doesn't last

you simply crash - then come back to me

for more!

I am like your local drug dealer

selling you a ten quid wrap

knowing you'll be back for more

despite the harm I cause you

you simply can't do without me

can you!

Who am I?

Sugar!

Gales

Gales wake demons - those the darkness bring

those that under beds; hide

horrors which in shadowy corners; lurk 

all are woken 

the gales unsettle

beasts of distorted imaginations

gales howl through telegraph wires

fight with trees - their branches stripped

garden fences tossed aside

bang side-gates and doors of sheds

swing the signs of public houses

windows under total attack

will the latch hold tight?

will the panes of glass survive?

there 

lying - rigid

cold

amidst an emotional overload  

amongst the troubled thoughts that those 'wee small hours' bring

as the clocks hands slow to a stop

feeding time to anxious minds

thoughts dragged away to corners dark

blankets which as children protected

now fail to settle a troubled 

adult 

mind - which now

no-longer able to comfort

to reassure 

just drifts away

drifting

drifting 

in 

and out 

of sleep

drifting

drifting...

...until sleepy eyes open 

and the curtains flung wide

to the calm of another day

to see a world still there - and see that now

all is well

(Haiku)

Snappy 'one-liners';

I have heard, are wasted on 

the hard of hearing