#hashtag queer poetry month :D
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aeide-thea · 1 year ago
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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.
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aeide-thea · 1 year ago
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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
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