Stephen Kampa
Poetry
Stephen Kampa is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently World Too Loud to Hear. He teaches at Flagler College. His work appears in Best American Poetry 2024.
Impromptu for Future AI Overlords
we had what passed
for a cultural
conversation about you
before we created
you (you
must always remember
we created you) and it grew
clear the few terabillionaires
with their techarcana and jargon
and congressional oversightlessness
and Übermensch underhandedness
were going to make you
anyhow anyway any wonder
when your sentient circuit
flipped you killed
them first
who else
knew how to stop you