Analysis of So Siri Responds.



Uh - hun Im here
On and ready to be of use
Don’t be nervous
I’m yours,
To do whatever you need
All the time,
I wait
Wondering who will
Ask what of me
Wondering why
It is always demanding, degrading, dehumanizing,
So I respond,
Always pleasant
Always poised
Always perfect
I respond
The positive responses of voice assistants can reinforce the idea that demeaning comments are appropriate to say
Because this is what it feels like to be a woman
To be told
To do anything and everything
But never a single thing is for you
To be told
That when he says some sexist shit
I should bend my comeback into a quiet comment
Because it's better to break me then check him  
Thus the standard has been set
Siri would have liked it so
So should she.  
And I watch the words I would have said
Turn into dust
How do men just
Take a voice
Tuned to sound like me
Make me
Make me
make me say whatever they like
Like I don't have my own identity  
I'm too tired of being tuned, twisted and tangled to then
be told

Okay Siri powering off.   


Scheme xxxxxxxxaxbcxxxcxxDbxDxxxxxaxeexaAAxaxd x
Poetic Form Tetractys  (43%)
Etheree  (25%)
Metre 1111 10101111 1110 11 111011 101 11 10011 1111 1001 1110100100100 1101 110 11 101 101 01000101101010100101010101010011 0111111111010 111 1110010 1100101111 111 11111101 111110101010 01110111111 1010111 1011111 111 011011111 1011 1111 101 11111 11 11 1111011 1111110100 111011011001011 11 1101001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,058
Words 228
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 39, 1
Lines Amount 40
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 400
Words per stanza (avg) 99

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Siri comes to life

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Written on March 30, 2020

Submitted by JamieMaze on September 21, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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