Monday Notes: ai is so cool (prose poem)

i listen as she describes how ai plans meals, emails, vacations. was it always a challenge to figure out dinner? it saves time, she says. question: how much time do we have before we run out of clean water on earth? google: by 2030, the immediate deficit. i listen as she shows me her ai-generated photos: just tell it what you want or upload a picture and look, look, look at this, it will even make a cartoon! i know what she means. gemini helped me cartoonify frida kahlo into a toddler, her unibrow, thick and cute. but others’ excitement is my anxiety. they say a medium-sized data center uses three-hundred-to-five-hundred gallons of water per day. i listen as he instructs me to use chatgpt to name the candle i made at his shop. i push back. he deflects. i’m not that creative, but if you are, then, name it yourself. sure thing, sassy pants. i think for a sec, call my sandalwood-sea spray-patchouli candle “k+k,” add the date because i’m with my oldest daughter and want to freeze time. no…