does it so much matter
yes
whether which sex is the author
no
or even the species
,or
whether the verse
was churned in the belly of a brain
or a supercomputer the size
of a train
? is it like a punch in the liver
when that moment
i discover
the poem-here was written
in actual fact
by a thing unlike
me: a female
robot
not the same, really
what could she know
of human labor
pain, said the man