Michael Chang

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POEM ENDING WITH LINES FROM FRANK O’HARA

I have seen boys, also, walk in the street with their arms twined around each other’s necks, and always in each other’s society. They say they love each other very much.”—Jena Osman

 

As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly”—Proverbs 26:11

  

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In 1467, Alfonso de Spina asserted that the number of demons was 133,316,666

Living in Brooklyn is Napoleonic exile

I am the Pope of desire

like fucking with, well, the weather

Like a storm

taking a bath in seltzer

With dry eyes

 you watch my heart harden

Evan & his practice tests 

 

I hate ppl axing who I write for

I don’t write for myself

I do other things for myself

I do this for you

  

You’re the whiteboy whisperer

Pied Piper of questioning boys

 I want to be the type of bitch who sips tea & sits on chintz

I think it’s bad there are giraffes in New Jersey—

giraffes shouldn’t have to deal with that

You get off on his hiking pics

You rub your bean to him, rhythmically

Tell him you want to see his mountaintop

 His cock bends towards white supremacy

He returns to the appalachian trail

He will get his comeuppance 

 

 心不在焉

Sextina sestina cat’s in the cradle Hanoi Jane

Comedy is tragedy plus time

LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED!

oh Lana Turner we love you get up

ON BIRTHDAYS

First, understand this

The real thing is never as good as the fantasy

The real thing is never as big as the fantasy

The real thing is never as live as the fantasy

The real thing is never as painful as the fantasy

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屌你老母

DELAY NO MORE

屌你老母

DELAY NO MORE

屌你老母

DELAY NO MORE

屌你老母

DELAY NO MORE

屌你老母

DELAY NO MORE

屌你老母

DELAY NO MORE

MICHAEL CHANG (they/them) is the proud recipient of fellowships from Lambda Literary, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Brooklyn Poets, & the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Their writing has been published or is forthcoming in the Cincinnati Review, Summerset Review, Vassar Review, Minnesota Review, Santa Clara Review, Ninth Letter, Hobart, Harpur Palate, Poet Lore, & many others. Their collection <golden fleece> was a finalist for the Iowa Review Award in Poetry.

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