Michael Chang
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EVERYTHING IS PERFECT :)
like blasts of ice they say meet me where hooters used to be i trawl thru change dot org b/c i want
to know wut futility feels like a childless milf a5 wagyu whiteboys so insane for pleasure they
forget themselves we hear the stars grinding to dust “i bought u a sweater u don’t have it yet i
hope ur not too cold” ur mascara’s running & that’s my dick ur eyes gleaming w/ wet dreams
mirrors might steal ur charm u lower ur swollen membranes 靠你不如靠北 not all muses are
created equal i have unqualified admiration for u u impress me so much ur mallorca wedding u
invited the jennifer lawrence his destiny is to be w/ me omg wut if he forgotten me like chris
brown forgotten ur right it’s impossible juicy nubs fail us he is my only metric
MORE NIGHTS THAN DAYS
As a husband & daughter, I care abt this social justice issue & only b/c I am a husband & daughter
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There are literally no other reasons I would concern myself w/ such issues as poverty, hunger, ...
desire encroaching upon me, rude like asking Adele who did her lap-band
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Baked potatoes, bubbly, caviar, creme fraiche, maybe a truffle to kick it up a notch ... the magnitude
of my obsessions will shock / impress (???) u
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U BUILD BACK BETTER, have a whites-only bar thx to Biden ... he can’t remember his lines but
he’ll never forget Scranton
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His poems are weak b/c he doesn’t dive deep ... he also hates himself, is incapable of separating love
from jealousy
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When u open ur eyes they submit to u ... elbow one another to become ur conquests tingly w/ use ...
when u close ur eyes they dissipate ... kinda delighted, u say I seem to have come out of nowhere
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Ur distant but not quite unattainable ... still legible, like inscriptions meant for somebody else ...
forcibly I reorder my memories, shape them to bypass u ... flick from thought to thought,
unrecognizable, rendered such that I associate them w/ anything other than u
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I service young u & u don’t want ppl to know ... u become something I carry, an animal shivering in
death ... the deer u once shot & wrote abt, pistons pumping just fast enough to hang on
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They aren’t kidding ... u are otherworldly
DEVIANT MESSIAH
POEM DESCRIBING REDDIT DEBATE BETWEEN “COULD CARE LESS” &
“COULDN’T CARE LESS”
Total Immersion Poetry Workshop 2023
It is said that Paddington Bear, honeyed creature ostensibly from England, is from “darkest Peru”
I never thought I’d grow up to be the person who wore shorts—albeit v cute—to a gallery opening
This reminds me of the time GQ featured my friends but cut me out b/c I was in shorts
In some poems, the looking-away, the not yet! not now!, the first-let-me! can be appealing
I have a bracket of boys who luv me & of coz u come out on top
I gift u purple fluff, remake ur whole body
Ur belly button smells like tea-smoked duck
Arguments of counsel are not evidence
I emerge from my bedroom dramatically tho I live alone for the moment—wut u into
Never doubt American ingenuity, given the many varieties of pretzel
The shampoo is “UNISEX” ... u seem v animated over this
Insecure mxn luv to test how much u care & sometimes they go overboard ... 我尽力了
U were so irate u took fingernails left in a library book, cloned the DNA, scolded the clone for
hours, & then married it
I jinxed it when I called u my Larry Rivers, didn’t I
Such a funny word, “lunchpail” ... almost excuses the slop
I do not need to know the origins of the word “crabcake”
I’m so original I still use tokens on the subway
As Sontag (I know) said in 2000: “Authority, idiosyncrasy, velvetiness—these are what make a star”
U say there are no standards but they are talking abt me nevertheless!