All my life corporations have fought tooth and nail for my attention.
A tooth before I lost mine.
A nail as I bit them, staring at a screen.
Before I could look up, corporate profit became my fingertips.
Manufactured, optimized, advertised to.
Now I am changed, 13 years living with one hand virtual.
My company, my attention, my information.
Now they want my intelligence to be artificial.
I am sick and reading its overviews.
I am sick of it and yet I scroll.
Kailee Hanson is an Interdisciplinary Artist from Rochester, Michigan Now based in Detroit. She attends the College for Creative Studies in the Interdisciplinary Art and Design program and specializes in jewelry, metalsmithing, figure drawing, mixed media, and digital illustration. Poetry, while it has always been of interest, is a more recent endeavor for her as she explores how art and poems can strengthen each other’s impact.
