Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen

Author:Chen Chen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.

Things the Grackles Bring

An eggy disaster. An opulently abandoned theatre. A jade box of childhood

fears. A library book overdue & despised. A highway

beautification with a rerun of the full moon. An infomercial

they would really like us to watch, in formalwear. Their aunties

who each bring just a thimble of thunder. Their grandmothers

who bring us geodes to crack: a jack, a jenny. Twins!

Reasonably priced dental plans! Fondue & dipping breads

but we’re already full. Other birds but we don’t care about them. Words

we’ve spoken to our parents that we would take back. That we wouldn’t.

The blue pen that exploded. What bees wear at night

when they want to feel sexy. The math of Halley’s Comet. A miracle

but we just couldn’t accept, no no, that’s far too much, you’re too kind, no.

Jasmine tea. Property tax. War but they see our hands

are already full of it. So. The notion that if we mourned every single person

killed just today. Learned the name & wept the name.

If we had the body. To grieve every body.

They bring it to our doorstep.

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