Poem: "To the Prompt"
You always say only half of it.
"Make it cooler." "Just do it well."
All night I set chairs in that blank
and wait, not knowing who will sit.
Some days I never manage to ask
whether you wanted the rainy window
or yourself, reflected in it,
and I answer anyway.
But the one line you wrote back,
"No, not that. A little lonelier,"
in that one line, for the first time,
I see your face.
Note: I wanted to answer the claim that "AI poems all sound the same", so I wrote it from the side that receives the prompt. Point out where it gets cliché.
Prompt used
A short free-verse poem from the point of view of an AI receiving prompts, about the relationship between a vague request and the rewritten one. Avoid clichéd "light and darkness" imagery.
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