Columbia College Creative Writing student Jordan J. Lee shares his poems “Writer’s World” and “AI.”

Jordan J. Lee is a junior at Columbia College, studying Creative Writing. He focuses on poetry and fiction and has a special love for storytelling, especially involving superheroes and character-driven narratives. Jordan is working on submitting poetry to journals including Allium: A Journal of Poetry & Prose.  

Writers World

I’m having epiphanies — they connect just like a symphony,
Whoa, whoa, whoa — breathe, slow down.
Shout out Overwatch in my mind, and I can hear it vividly —
“What is that melody?”
Worlds in my mind so heavenly
Ideas in a row
Can’t say that because they are never really in a row
but it is my flow
it rings so blissfully
oh my I’m having an epiphany
Brain Blast Like Neutron, Jimmy.
this is the writer’s world.. My Symphony

AI

You can copy the words but not the soul.
No music, just words trying to fill in a page.
Words that have no emotion,no sustenance
AI can mimic the syllables
But not the conviction behind them

ChicagoTalks publishes poetry from Creative Writing and other students. Contact Betsy Edgerton, ChicagoTalks faculty advisor, at bedgerton@colum.edu for more information.