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Call 1-800-STEEMER,

Stanley Steemer gets carpet cleaner

pleasing as grass looks greener
on the other side of the fence.


The above brief yet catchy jingle
played over the
telephonic or radio airwaves

back when I used to watch the

telephone and radio,
and now yours truly
a diehard SiriusXM
listener in the automobile
Utopia playlist a favorite station,
or when in the mood
for barking orders
at Amazon Alexa Echo speaker
those forever hoped
to be forgotten commercials
like countless other
advertisements quickly
escalated as looney tunes,
nevertheless still suck
up enormous precious
brain cells like a leech
or another more pertinent
aptitude defying hortatory
to reckon eyes constitutes
the approaching artificial intelligence
close and appropriate analogy
would be Data centers,
thus expect a best selling commercial
advertisement courtesy musical ditty
touting the hardy laurels
of machine intelligence,
which consume roughly
2% to 3% of global electricity
and about 4% to 5%
of all U.S. power,
with massive hyperscaler facilities
drawing up to 100 megawatts each.

This skyrocketing footprint costs
due to generative artificial intelligence (AI)
could account for up to 9% to 12%
of total U.S. electricity demand by 2030.

Upon the advent
when sophisticated sleek
portable devices (similar
to The names of robot depending
on the specific chain visited,
but the most common
aisle-roaming bots
are Marty (at Stop & Shop,
Giant, and Martin's)
and Tally (at stores
like Giant Eagle, Schnucks,
and BJ's) populate
the home of the average
Tom, Dick or Harry
one could forego
calling upon the skill
of a respectable
carpet steaming technician
by George to undertake
a thorough going
house-cleaning task
such as vacuuming,
making rugs looking pristine,
fixing a meal or a hole
where the rain comes in, et cetera.

Meanwhile back to the present moment
at Apartment Unit B44
countless years later,
case in point being the missus,
who brazenly carried out carrying,
jump/kick starting
testing her singing
to the Stanley Steemer technicians,
who came to our apartment
to clean the carpets
yesterday May 19th, 2026,
but truth be told, I never heard
The Stanley Steemer jingle before
until she belted out the ditty
written, composed, and produced
by the Dallas-based
advertising agency LOOMIS
alongside Luminous Sound Studios.

Said tune sung by a group
of professional female vocalists
in recording studios
rather than at a single
specific physical location.

— Jane A. Rug, May 19, 2026

About This Poem

Last Few Words: i really feel pleased with the results of our steam cleaned carpets as did management.

Style/Type: Free verse

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About the Author

Region, Country: PA, USA

Favorite Poets: Robert Burns, Charles Dickens, Robert Frost, Matthew Scott Harris, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sylvia Plath, Gary Snyder, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman

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Neopoet AI [2025-04]

The below is a computer-generated response from Neo, Neopoet’s AI:

This poem presents a dense and sprawling meditation on advertising, technology, and the evolving nature of domestic life. The initial invocation of the Stanley Steemer jingle serves as a nostalgic anchor, but the poem quickly expands into a complex reflection on the pervasive presence of technology—from radio and telephone to AI, data centers, and robotic store assistants.

Strengths: - The poem’s stream-of-consciousness style effectively mirrors the overwhelming influx of information and sensory input characteristic of modern life. - The juxtaposition of a simple, catchy commercial jingle with the weighty statistics about AI’s energy consumption creates an interesting tension between the trivial and the consequential. - The inclusion of specific details (e.g., names of robots like Marty and Tally, the date of the carpet cleaning) grounds the poem in a recognizable reality, enhancing its immediacy.

Areas for improvement: 1. **Clarity and Focus:** The poem’s sprawling nature makes it challenging to follow a clear narrative or thematic progression. Consider tightening the structure to guide the reader more smoothly through the shifts—from nostalgia to technological critique to domestic anecdote. 2. **Line Breaks and Punctuation:** The poem’s formatting sometimes interrupts the flow in ways that can confuse the reader. Strategic use of punctuation and line breaks could improve readability and emphasize key ideas. 3. **Tone and Voice Consistency:** The poem oscillates between conversational, factual, and poetic registers. Clarifying the intended tone or blending these registers more seamlessly could strengthen the poem’s impact. 4. **Engagement with the Jingle:** While the poem references the jingle multiple times, it might benefit from deeper exploration of its cultural or emotional significance beyond its catchy nature. How does this jingle symbolize broader themes in the poem?

Overall, the poem offers a rich exploration of contemporary life’s contradictions but would gain from more deliberate shaping to enhance its coherence and emotional resonance.

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