"Overheard by a Democrat at the RNC...," "A Polygraph...," and "A Series of Active Inquiries in the Wake of Apple's Delivery"

Overheard by a Democrat at the RNC
or a Comment Uttered while Waiting at a Deli Counter?

1. What the Hell is taking so long?
2. Is it still alive?
3. Is it fresh?
4. Too bitter.
5. Too old.
6. Too salty.
7. Thin cut, please.
8. It wasn’t good the first time.
9. Cut the crap.
10. That’s false advertising!
11. Ticket?
12. Watch the weight.
13. Eew, that stinks.
14. Too high a price.
15. I forget what I came in for.
16. Next!

A Polygraph,
of s(p)orts (in four parts)

1. Recite your name.
2. Name your emotional state.
3. State your place of origin.
4. Describe your date of birth.
5. Is blood thicker than water?
6. Are family trees rooted in soil?
7. Do hearts beat in chambers?
   In isolation?
8. What is the color of pressure?
   Does pressure modify color?

9. Is reporting more or less reliable
   than reports of truths everlasting?
10. Are obstacles overt?
    Are covert obstacles more, or less, truth or hurt?
11. Do questions presented as a series raise concerns?
12. Distinguish reform from familiar verbs.
13. Is “No” a complete sentence?
14. Is “Yes?” a query or a conversation?
15. Clarify the term of an undesirable condition.
16. Do assaults have a defined end?

17. Do all endings have beginnings?
18. True/False:
    Electric signals are personal indicators.
19. Do bunny slippers reveal personal indicators?
20. Define an electric syndication of worth.
21. Is the word survivor more noun or verb?
22. Respond with one word.
    When is truth overheard?

23. When privacy is stolen,
    what does one put in their purse?
24. Define bill. Is truth bought or sold?
25. If polygraphs puncture precarious states of truth,
    why is their use perpetuated?
26. Stop. Erase all responses.
27. To return truths to their original homes,
    which compass dial direction is needed?

A Series of Active Inquiries in the Wake of Apple’s Delivery

1. Popeye Goes for Green

when I first heard “AI”,
I thought of Popeye –

if only a can of spinach
could save humanity

I took a bite
and quickly realized,
the can was stocked
of worms and worry

2. On (Spinach’s) Limits

I wonder what Popeye
would think of AI –

spinach only
an inch (4 consonants) removed
from pain,
and
a single nutrient (t) removed
from itch

if the can, once opened,
can never again be sealed,
what happens when the nutrients
are more greedy than green

3. Things I did While the Apple Dropped from the Tree
    

• debated the nutritional limits of spinach
• held up my chin during Congressional testimony
• contemplated how many decimals north of the bottom is AI’s conscience
• explored spinach’s origins (internal data points more revealing than the container)

nap                  chin                 spin
snap                 pain                 inch
pinch               chains              panics                                     

4. On (Spinach’s) Limits

even Popeye’s spinach
has nutritional limits

too much of a good thing?
someone asks

No, I reply.
I believe it’s an allergy

Source: Apple’s Conference

With a fresh shipment of AI, this time in an apple bushel, I’m increasingly fearful of the bite of the tool.

Sample link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/06/14/apples-bold-entry-into-the-ai-arena-the-launch-of-apple-intelligence/