NVN Wednesday: A POEM IN THE STYLE OF…
by Samantha Pious
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ChatGPT, I’m running out of time— at 5 PM submissions will be due. I need an adverb to fill out the line and so, reluctantly, I turn to you. ChatGPT, this stanza doesn’t rhyme. I need your help! What ends in -angeroo? Hmm. Nothing else? I’m really in a bind— maybe you could write this next one too? ChatGPT, there’s so much on my mind and writing’s hard. So give me just a few new poems for this manuscript of mine. If somebody—lol, who?—decides to sue, I’ll say it’s a conceptual design. Brilliant, eh? Five books, and twenty-two thousand copies sold on Nook and Prime! Life is good. There’s so much left to do. ChatGPT, I’m running out of time.
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Samantha Pious is a poet, translator, editor, and medievalist with a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. Her translations of Renée Vivien are available as A Crown of Violets (Headmistress Press, 2017); her translation of Christine de Pizan's One Hundred Ballades of a Lover and His Lady is forthcoming.