[Not a robot, suggests poet Lisa Allen Ortiz. Prove it and she
deftly does. ]
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I AM NOT A ROBOT  
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Lisa Allen Ortiz
December 1, 2022
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_ Not a robot, suggests poet Lisa Allen Ortiz. Prove it and she
deftly does. _

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I AM NOT A ROBOT

BY LISA ALLEN ORTIZ

What language do

machines speak?

Yes. No. I woke to

a progress bar—

some lapse or absence.

Who made the world?

We did, you said, and

I worked the problem of it

with my hands.

Inside the puzzle

of it, a captcha code

the prophets left, a wheel

rimmed with eyes.

Crosswalks, stoplights.

I checked everything

I knew. The human part

dragged itself.

Something clicked.

Baby, I like the way

you look at me.

What a time on earth — 

sunlight, shadow

and both of us inside

this one

encrypted afternoon.

Lisa Allen Ortiz’s second collection of poetry, _Stem_, won the
2022 Idaho Prize judged by Ilya Kaminsky. She lives in Santa Cruz, CA

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