Two Poems

The I Am Not a Robot

from The Poets

I am an admin named Lewis obvi
I am a shadow, dust-encrusted, head-to-toe
I am thinner than your “average” samurai
I do what my life coach tells me

I have left my body-of-work to a shell company
I am a coterie, lawyer-trustees, et al.
I am at once a minimum of 7 memories
I am a sentence without a clause

I am a *Leo from South Shore, Massachusetts
I cosplay as someone who could give good advice
I am a sad boi whose mom and dad divorced :(
I am just not a fan of Duran Duran

I am a Trekkie AND a Patriot
I am on a dating site called Dr. Jekyll
I write, and drink, and walk, and say, okay
I am allowed to continue vanishing

 for Etel Adnan

Down in My Notes

There’s a line I keep writing
down in my notes

night after night-ing
down in my notes

in the room where I wrote
down in my notes

sleepwalking the stairs
down in my notes

right through the front door
down in my notes

I waltz around town
down in my notes

and the surrounding countryside
down in my notes

to the end of the dock
down in my notes

into the deep
down in my notes

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Matthew Klane’s books of poetry include Of the Day (Publication Studio 2025), Hist (w/ James Belflower, Calamari 2022), Canyons (w/ James Belflower, Flimb Press 2016), Che (Stockport Flats 2013), and B (Stockport Flats 2008). An e-book My is online at FENCE. His debut record, Too Little Too Late, was released in January 2025.