This poem was shared in a group chat this afternoon and it's so good.
Author: Samantha Bise, link to source: www.facebook.com/samanthalynn...
![Poem by Samantha Bise, part 1: A student tells me I should teach how to write using AI as a tool. I tell him we don't use forklifts in the gym. Some tools can weaken us. This is less profane than what I really want to say to him: If you don't learn how to do the heavy lifting of thinking and writing, you will become an animal that survives eating only its own shit. Our words are what feeds the machine. AI becomes our mirror. When we only ever look at our reflection, the mirror becomes the meal. Soon we are eating what we already ate, chewing yesterday's language and calling it a new recipe. We harvest our own manure, dress it up as knowledge, and feed it to the system that feeds it right back to us. Mama and baby birds passing chewed worms from beak to beak. Never swallowing or digesting a thing, but calling it substance. A strange new carnivore. Not flesh eating flesh, but thought eating thought, until the words become marrow—I mean narrow. [Rest of Alt Text in second post]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2feqoni5dsr7hu4446qthqgj/bafkreif3ztuyamz3va4wjdrkl45usext2pxyeqtanr4dvxiv75ze2af7nu)
Lauren Woolsey
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