God I Feel Modern Tonight by Catherine Cohen

Author:Catherine Cohen
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2021-02-02T03:00:00+00:00

Life is in the spaces between sex with you

at the bodega on Nostrand

I can see the reflection

of the shop behind me as

I look out the window

through aisles of potato chips,

variations on Cholula

over the radio a man croons

“Jazz Club: if you found us, you’re in”

when it happens, poems are

poem-ier. songs are song-ier. heartbreak,

when it comes, and it will come,

is always new

oh god

it rained for six days straight in new york city

and I started telling everyone I want a boyfriend

the rain made me think I wanted a boyfriend

so what if I do

I accept I can’t change you, I accept you’re in rome,

I accept I’ve romanticized

your knowledge of music theory—

for all my talk of songs I’m much better at calculus,

geometry, noticing the way

you pull your sleeves up in the park.

all my fantasies revolve around a screen door,

red wine, the dirty projectors, stew in the summer,

rain as an excuse to do everything in excess,

sex that makes you hungry

for stew in the summer. I am

not the one who noticed

I only reveal what I really want in song—

a man in flannel with one hand

on the steering wheel

telling me something I won’t remember

because it isn’t memorable

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