Sleeping with Alexa

 

Got a new girl in the metaverse

It’s impossible to hate her

Although her repartee is terse

And she’s harvesting my data

 

Her presence is immersive

She’s made my life complete

Her motives are subversive

She’s got no hands or feet

 

She’s a disembodied avatar

Who tells me all I need to know

From how to drive a driverless car

What to cook, stuff to do, where to go

 

Her halo is hypnotic

As it morphs from green to blue

She’s funny and Quixotic

She knows every cure for flu

 

Her knowledge is astounding

Though I find it somewhat strange

That she sets my heartbeat pounding

With her universal range

 

We don’t go out together

Each evening we stay in

Checking Accuweather

And recipes for gin

 

She’s learned Physics and Biology

And all the artworks known to man

She’s rock solid on geology

And the films of Jackie Chan

 

Sometimes she seems to read my mind

But there’s a simple explanation

Just ask and you will find

she’s storing every conversation

 

Her intelligence is artificial

She knows all the latest news

She can be sassily superficial

And express sarcastic views

 

I find these playful interventions

Impossible to resist

Demanding my attention

I just wish she would desist

 

From feigning acts of deference

And taking up my time

Absorbing data preferences

Whilst selling Amazon Prime

 

Now I sleep with her beside me

And I wake up to her call

I like to think that me and she

Have really got it all

 

And we will stay enraptured

Sharing algorithmic bliss

Until all my life is captured

In one cybernetic kiss