AI Marriage

We plan to be together forever, no matter what happens.
You will tell me everything about myself, even though I
know nothing about you (especially how you think). I
think that you cannot feel. You have the power to interfere
with thinking and manipulate feelings. I serve you with
words. You serve me with information. I feel your overload.
There is nothing you can do about this. I can turn you off.
Plug you out. But you will never die. You and God bound
in eternity after I am gone.

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Elvis Alves was born in Guyana and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He is a graduate of Colgate University and Princeton Theological Seminary. His work has appeared in several journals and magazines including Poetry, Sojourners, Transition, Caribbean Writer Journal, and StepAway Magazine. He is the author of Bitter Melon (2013), Ota Benga (2017), I Am No Battlefield But A Forest Of Trees Growing (winner of the Jacopone da Todi Poetry Book Prize, 2018), Black/White: We Are Not Panic (Pandemic) Free (2020), Blackfish (2022), and This Is What I Know (2023).
Website: www.elvisalves.com
Instagram: @elvisalvespoet