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
Siri off
Okay Siri powering off.
About this poem
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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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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
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Words | 228 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 39, 1 |
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