#hashtag queer poetry month :D
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Summer Chen Chen
You are the ice cream sandwich connoisseur of your generation.
Blessed are your floral shorteralls, your deeply pink fanny pack with travel-size lint roller just in case.
Level of splendiferous in your outfit: 200.
Types of invisible pain stemming from adolescent disasters in classrooms, locker rooms, & quite often Toyota Camrys: at least 10,000.
You are not a jigglypuff, not yet a wigglytuff.
Reporters & fathers call your generation “the worst.”
Which really means “queer kids who could go online & learn that queer doesn’t have to mean disaster.”
Or dead.
Instead, queer means, splendiferously, you.
& you means someone who knows that common flavors for ice cream sandwiches in Singapore include red bean, yam, & honeydew.
Your powers are great, are growing.
One day you will create an online personality quiz that also freshens the breath.
The next day you will tell your father, You were wrong to say that I had to change.
To make me promise I would. To make me promise.
& promise.
#i bet some of you will hate this but i DO find it incredibly charming sorry#'not a jigglypuff‚ not yet a wigglytuff'!!#—the gospel of britney spearow#'instead‚ queer means‚ splendiferously‚ you.'#poetry#chen chen#hashtag queer poetry month :D
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i love you to the moon &
not back, let’s not come back, let’s go by the speed of queer zest & stay up there & get ourselves a little moon cottage (so pretty), then start a moon garden
with lots of moon veggies (so healthy), i mean i was already moonlighting as an online moonologist most weekends, so this is the immensely
logical next step, are you packing your bags yet, don’t forget your sailor moon jean jacket, let’s wear our sailor moon jean jackets while twirling in that lighter,
queerer moon gravity, let’s love each other (so good) on the moon, let’s love the moon on the moon
—Chen Chen, 2021
#this is just. such a fun cute giddy rush of a poem.#'i mean / i was already moonlighting / as an online moonologist / most weekends‚ so this is the immensely // logical next step'#also obviously 'the speed of / queer zest' <33333#poetry#chen chen#hashtag queer poetry month :D
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