Who’s Laughing Now

he fell in love w/ her family’s chain of supermarkets

she fell in love w/ his string of car dealerships

how he painted w/ his penis

many faces of loneliness

like a long game of telephone

one man’s poison being another man’s dopamine

he reached for his wallet

ostensibly to play sad & sensitive male

but pulled out a pair of chopsticks

as judge judy let puppy

find real owner in courtroom

raw, the best kind of vulnerability

mind like a steel trap

kimono rippling in the wind

u deliver ur hart to someone else

ur poems abt cancer

really bumming me out

i fully intend to live forever

neon signs flashing

< R U IN TROUBLE >

then

< BETTER YET SEND A TEXT !!! >

Michael Chang (they/them) is the author of TOY SOLDIERS (Action, Spectacle, 2024) and THINGS A BRIGHT BOY CAN DO (Coach House Books, 2025). They edit poetry at Fence.