Matthew Klane

THE WHEREABOUTS

The poets entered the workforce as a matter of course.

The poets put on suits and donned minty morning routines.

The poets wandered the highway, mouth to mouth, wire to wire, waystation to waystation, out to the surrounding countryside.

The poets were referred to by the bird-bosses as “boots on the ground.”

The poets were hired to be spies at the CIA amusement park.

The poets dispersed into an open space which no doubt was the marketplace.

The poets eyeballed an arcade called “The Atrocities.”

The poets herded queues and pulled levers for rides like “Threat Level” or “Interplanetary Deportation.” 

The poets played with dossiers on lunch breaks.

The poets hunted for meaningful tropes in the everyday.

The poets made boozy bonfires of sound in the oncoming dark of their sunset commute.

The poets were summoned to a conference and never seen nor heard from again.

MATTHEW KLANE is co-founder of Flim Forum Press and co-curator of Salon Salvage, a poetry and performance series inside of Weathered Wood in Troy, New York. His books of poetry include Hist (w/ James Belflower, Calamari 2022), Canyons (w/ James Belflower, Flimb Press 2016), Che (Stockport Flats 2013) and B (Stockport Flats 2008). An e-chapbook, from Of the Day, is online at Delete Press, and an ebook, My, is online at Fence Digital.