{"id":2966,"date":"2026-10-19T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2026-10-22T00:57:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T00:57:48","slug":"verbal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=2966","title":{"rendered":"Verbal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One hundred words
I spoke
aloud
in the car
to a voice note
that I'd specifically<\/em>
activated:
\u201cHey Siri, capture a verbal note\u201d

I then pour my thoughts
from my mind 
through my lips
to the cabin of my car
to my unseen copilot.

From red light
to right turn 
to residential
I speak clearly, 
steady;
crystalized honey pace, 
I 
en-nun<\/em>-see-ate.

And then I park my car
Kill the engine with a button 
Collect my work apparatuses
Collapse on my sitting room settee.

I open my notes app
to find that
my \"one hundred words\"
Spoah-Ken  a-loud 
were captured as
an Apple note, 
Bold title: 
\u201cVerbal\u201d
Body: 


[empty]


= = = 

So then
this poem
is about the poem
I dictated into existence 
that you\u2019ll never read

Because 
Smart technology 
interpreted me 
lit-er-al-ly
and now 
I have 
no words 
to show for it.

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“Verbal,\u201dan agonizing discovery that a voice note dictated, poetry in motion, while driving did not result in a captured poem, written Monday, October 19, 2026 poem 292 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo: “Full Brain, Empty Voice Note,”  by Diana Ludwick \u00a9 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,200,1717,2703,1572,2,5,263,2353],"tags":[3150,3152,2677,569,3155,3149,3157,3154,3148,3151,3153,1616,3156,3145,1921,3147,3146],"class_list":["post-2966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-humor","category-loosely-hinged-2","category-maryland","category-of-place","category-poems","category-rants","category-snarky","category-travel","tag-empty","tag-apple-note","tag-autumn","tag-bold","tag-crystallzed-honey-pace","tag-dictated","tag-hey-siri","tag-kill-the-engine","tag-lit-er-al-ly","tag-no-words","tag-notes-app","tag-october","tag-one-hundred-words","tag-poetry-in-motion","tag-siri","tag-smart-device","tag-voice-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2969,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions\/2969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}