Tuesday, July 08, 2025

Tuesday poem #640 : Michael Chang : BAD SISTERS

 

Mum’s the word

Pimped-out country

Thick stream of horsecock

That bacon bloat

Cunty Cullen

Taking the piss

Don’t piss me off

U don’t know shit from shinola

An absinthe rinse

We polish the knob

At the artist’s request

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Michael Chang (they/them) is the author of many volumes of poetry, including SYNTHETIC JUNGLE (Northwestern University Press, 2023), TOY SOLDIERS (Action, Spectacle, 2024), and THINGS A BRIGHT BOY CAN DO (Coach House Books, 2025). They won the Poetry Project's Brannan Prize and edited Lambda Literary's Emerge anthology. Their work has appeared in such publications as AGNI, the American Poetry Review, the Harvard Review, the Iowa Review, and POETRY. They are judging Cream City Review's 2025 Prize in Poetry. They live in Manhattan.

the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan

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