We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage / And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, / We Poets of the proud old lineage / Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why ... (James Elroy Flecker)

28.7.26

This Modern Life


My energy provider does not 

use AI to speak to me.

I love their customer care! 

Patience. Efficiency. 

A polite human

who understands my elderly

confusions on details.

Also, the quality of music 

playing while I wait 

in the ubiquitous phone queue

is excellent.



A quadrille in response to Sanaa's Q. 252 at dVerse: exactly 44 words excluding title, and using  the obligatory word 'care.'   I came off the phone from the experience described above, to see this dVerse prompt in my email, so the above pretty much leapt into being. Apologies if you were expecting deep and serious poetry! (But, believe me, this matter IS serious.)




10 comments:

  1. Oh boy, can I ever relate to this poem, having spent a few futile hours with AI assistance this week!!!

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    1. It makes you wonder why businesses wish to subject customers to such frustration.

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  2. Congratulations Rosemary! You have surely written the first post poem about hold music and customer service over the phone!

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  3. Aah, the small things in life really do count. How lovely when we recognise them and pay them forward - Jae

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    1. I expressed myself gratefully during the conversations, too.

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  4. Good to know music played while waiting in the queue makes such a great difference.

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    1. Yes, sometimes it adds to the trial one undergoes.

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  5. Ha... that music cannot be that good.. not my experience..

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