{"id":47241,"date":"2021-07-15T10:34:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T14:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=47241"},"modified":"2025-12-25T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T16:17:10","slug":"alexa-poems-must-be-a-genre-by-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2021\/07\/alexa-poems-must-be-a-genre-by-now.html","title":{"rendered":"Alexa Poems Must Be a Genre By Now"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alexa Dear<\/em><\/strong>\n\nWhy am I getting that ad on my device?<\/strong>\nAlexa, I want a divorce. Did you hear me?<\/strong>\nI can\u2019t spell it out for you. No, don\u2019t thank me.<\/strong>\nDon\u2019t wipe my nose. I can brush my own teeth. <\/strong>\n\nAlexa, you\u2019re the biggest pain in the ass<\/strong>\nsince childhood, and that was so<\/strong>\nlong ago I don\u2019t care to remember. But you, <\/strong>\nAlexa, you remember everything, don\u2019t you!<\/strong>\nEverything I feed you. Everything you overhear.<\/strong> \n\nIf I were paranoid, I would spin bold tales<\/strong>\nof grand conspiracies. I love those fantasies.<\/strong>\nBut they're not my thing, though in fact <\/strong>\nthey\u2019re not unreal. Please Alexa, do shut up. <\/strong>\nPlease disappear. You are unwanted here.<\/strong>\n\njh<\/em><\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Why am I getting that ad on my device? \/ Alexa, I want a divorce. Did you hear me? \/ I can\u2019t spell it out for you. No, don\u2019t thank me. \/ Don\u2019t wipe my nose. I can brush my own teeth. … If I were paranoid, I would spin bold tales  \/ of grand conspiracies. I love those fantasies. \/ But they’re not my thing, though in fact \/ they\u2019re not unreal. Please Alexa, do shut up. \/  Please disappear. You are unwanted here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-literature","8":"category-main","9":"category-news","10":"category-political-culture","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ALEX-logo-386.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-chX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47241"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71605,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47241\/revisions\/71605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}