‘Siri the Party Girl’
— Hannah Cohen
Siri, wild thing, clad
in your pixelated mini skirt
Ever wonder what would happen if the voice assistant in your smartphone had a life outside your own? Macy French’s imaginative poem shows us a different side of Siri, a Siri that “lets her hair down”. This poem delights in its balance of technological words and down-to-earth tone, giving us moments in a mundane life, and being over-connected to needy people. As society becomes more reliant on artificial intelligence, we could one day find ourselves like Joaquin Phoenix from the movie Her, sitting next to Siri at the bar as “[s]he orders a Jack and Coke”.