by Michael Chang
To be honest with you, I just assume everyone speaks Chinese
What happened to that Scottish boy with the different-colored eyes ???
If trends are cyclical, is it time to bring back CHATROOM POEMS ????
You are beautiful like my manners
Crystals really do a lot to a room I want to eat on a pile of crystals
Please do not ask abt my self-care/writing routine b/c if I had one would we be here? I think not
My Chinese eyes are all squinty from zooming in on low-res poetry images
Premium content—Madonna told me to be good & I have exceeded expectations
Haha Cavafy I wonder if he would have written abt me do you think he was into Azn
Sweaters are like hugs
Read abt Whitman “self-ghosting” & when I say I have a new kink—
RECENTLY VIEWED ???? I am still watching this ish
My default setting is Azn Glow
Read 6.5 as 6’5” & that tells you all you need to know
They say find a job you love & you’ll never work a day in your life. Well I love judging your shit
Attn universe I need to win some contests it is Chinese holiday so I can do whatever I want
What’s your favorite non-sexual act of intimacy?—NAPPING ALONE
Some of you talk so serious abt manifestly terrible poems & I’m like hehe cheese
PSA: talent is only minimally relevant. Dedication & discipline are much more important.
Chris Evans moderates & throws his shield at interruptions
If you made a horror movie, what extremely upbeat pop song would you want slowed down &
creepified to play in the trailer?—Higher Love
Between this Viet Thanh Nguyen quote (“poetry, the least expensive of the literary arts”) & Robin
Coste Lewis saying she became a poet after suffering brain damage—I feel so validated
Eoin—you’re like 75% vowels—daz hot
I don’t use track changes my word is final
Phil of the Future is still cute. I wish you well in my future endeavors
A famous author said to me: with 3 words you have ruined this picture for me you really are a poet
My work being taught—I feel very powerful almost like D. A. Powell
My poetics is pre-outburst Galliano, 16 collections a year, Couture & Pre-Fall & Cruise & Resort . . .
My brave poetics putting hot sauce in a Valentino bag
These jobs really b tryin to get me to do work for free. No to “writing tests”—have you met me?
We are poet we have no land just cup noodle
I hate mini muffins
Great enterprise invent cranapple
Baked potato, 1962
Resting like a DOG! A SICK CUSTOMER!
Maybe iz like farewell tour. Maybe iz like animal going home to die
I don’t do trends but these pink & black covers are a trend I approve hunny
I don’t know what load-bearing means but am admittedly intrigued
I’d be Patron Saint of Best I Never Had
Met a poet who said her fav books are Harry Potter I said yes yes very sad what has happened to Dobby
Need m*n to open particular jars but other than that drawing a blank
Every day I live in fear of being misidentified as another Azn poet but then I realize there’s no one like me
Writers, when you request a blurb, you don’t need to frame it by saying how gross or terrible or
whatever you are. We KNOW! TRUST!
Dog treat dat human also eat
I have the worst migraine after editing ms & this whiskey is not helping ???? I was told it would ????
Saw photo of tacos & said that is an excellent idea
Wonder if DC Madam is back in biz b/c Lady G has a flip phone so I KNOW they are not on apps
Thank you Russian giveth Chinese taketh away
A construction worker, a m*nly m*n, wants to know what’s so different abt my sex poems. Sir, I say, I am actually desirable in them. He weeps
Call me Costco b/c you need a membership & I am a lot to handle
A poet tells me they listen to Chopin while reading my work. If you’ve read my poems, I don’t foreclose the possibility that you’ve been naughty & skipped ahead, you will appreciate how hilarious that is
I am smol I am petite the Meowth of the team
I just remembered a Senator who claimed to be a tech gal but did not know how to email
Jane Hirshfield has a book called Cum Thief. I once wrote a poem abt queer angels texting. It is lost
to the anus of history now
We are poet we know what la petite mort is thank YOU!
Michael Chang (they/them) is a Lambda Literary fellow who was awarded the Kundiman Scholarship at the Miami Writers Institute. A finalist in contests at the Iowa Review, BOMB, NightBlock, & many others, their poems have been nominated for Best of the Net & the Pushcart Prize. Their manuscript <big shot manifesto> was selected by Rae Armantrout as a finalist for the Fonograf Editions Open Genre Book Prize, & another was a finalist in the Diode Editions Book Contest.