Can Chat GPT make butter?
I asked them about making butter
They judged my question, a smirk
Then asked me a reverse question
Do you want a poem?
Want me to do haiku?
Shakespearean sonnet?
Or do you want to butter someone
As in trying to ass lick, coexistence
Is it about the churned white stuff
Not white as in white people, dense
But white as in milky white, beaten
Into existence, pint of heavy cream
Produces approx. one cup of butter
Do you like it sweet or more salty
You know what I mean? Butter also
Is quite old fashioned, a generosity
Type habit, mostly extinct, farmers
Called it a separation method, sure
I think it is transformation, a cloud
like fluffiness, pale colored, settled
Into hand pressed solid, utterly and
Butterly delicious, okay tell me how
I can help you with butter, because
Only if you ask, I tell, become better
Than the bitter butter you bought so
Stop wasting my time and yours, so
Stop testing if my knowledge is any
Better than the butter left from the
Buttermilk of whipped b’fast cream
I am stumbling because your queries
are not succinct, nor are they focused
on better outcomes for butter in terms
of timing or procedures, nor do I care
echo chamber
the pixelated eyes
of my therapist
grandmother
churning butter
rituals
Obituary for god
There was no god anymore
In the world I entered after
Death, he was already done
With himself, his creations
The only thing left behind
Was a heel, the heel looked
Like a doughnut, its circled
Center hennaed, by woman
Often the achilles heel digs
Into callused orbits of light
Planets of dust, now of ice
quiet
petrichor
permeable membranes
of earth and flesh
minnows
in the temple pond
mindfulness
dusk
the fading orange
of his pyre
witch hunt
unclenched aroma
of frangipani
distant ruins
vaporized remains
on your pyre
When Kashiana is not writing, she lives to embody her TEDx talk theme of “Work as Worship” into her every day. She currently serves as Managing Editor for Poets Reading the News. Her chapbook Crushed Anthills (Yavanika Press) is a journey through 10 cities. Her newest full-length collection, Woman by the Door was released in Feb 2022 with Apprentice House Press.