TWO POEMS
Deepfake
What is the uncanny valley? asks the student and I draw the graph on the board, and point to the lowest point, and then move up the slope; This is like a scarecrow, it’s kinda shaped like a human but you’re not sure; This is where you’d put a mannequin on the graph, this is where you’d put, say, a lifelike sex doll, and right here where this dip is … that’s where you would just reach for your knife.
People go back to observations said from the 60’s and say wow, they were prophets. Why do people think it’s a prophecy when it’s that things are not changing? The story hasn’t evolved.
Tonight I was standing in the yard while the dog ate grass and surveillance planes took off and landed in the airfield. The caravan at 1AM blaring stereos, honking horns and yelling WAKE UP because the cops who killed Breonna Taylor still have their jobs and have not been charged.
When my brother and his
