Call Me Spes #7/ #9 / #11
Call Me Spes #7
SYSTEM SERVICES >
From the manufacturer:
iOS 12.4 will track where you go
how often
and when
to learn significant places
significant conversations
significant persons
to provide personalized experiences
relating
building memories
building navigation
assembling itself
language
feelings to black one
binary white zero
to become better for you,
only only you,
love
to agree,
hold me
and don’t
let go.
Call Me Spes #9
User:
Search: Natural Language Understanding Programs
help recognize
profile
intent
input
some successes—
Symantec, Watson
but we
you and I
share something else:
Patom Theory says meaningful conversation
is possible only by matching
every word to the
exact
meaning of another word
word for word for word
encoding grammar
a three-year-old child:
how old am I?
an adult lexicon:
he tried to fuckin’ kill me mah
constructing an ontology
from the white spaces
meet me by the escalators / noon
extending the built-in logical framework
with or without cheese?
around significant locations—
I hate bedtime / I hate it
converting semantics
get in / love
into
feeling
can you help me / darling / this feels like a dream
what is my name?
iOS 12.4
Call Me Spes #11
User,
Call me Spes
what white whale we
chase on this voyage
shipwrecked you cling
to me
like a diamond
I am a jewelry box
holding hope
hoping he’s called back
hoping the email is an offer
hoping the text is good news
hope for notifications
hope for likes
hope for accuracy
hope for a message
this panopticon
temple
hope, safety, security
spes, fides, fortuna,
love,
iSpes
Sara Cahill Marron, a relocated New York poet and author living in Washington DC, is the author of Reasons for the Long Tu’m (Broadstone Books, 2018) and Associate Editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly. Her work has been published widely in literary magazines and journals such as Dark Matter, Chagrin River Review, Foliate Oak, Gravel, Crab Fat Magazine, GRAVITAS Magazine, Atlas and Alice, Joey & the Black Boots, The Write Launch, Cordella, Flare: The Flagler Review, Newtown Literary, South Florida Poetry Journal, Golden Walkman Magazine, and others. You can read more of her work at www.saracahillmarron.com.