Summer



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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Written on 2021

Submitted by Drone232 on June 30, 2022

Modified on May 03, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X X X X X X X A A X X X X
Characters 1,013
Words 196
Stanzas 13
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

Chen Chen

Chen Chen’s debut poetry collection, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), won an A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. His work has been published in Poetry magazine, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Best of the Net, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. more…

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  • Dougla$Irishman
    Posting such junk is as bad as writing it ! Does your life have a code of ethnics ?
    Whatever is good and wholesome and uplifting, dwell on these things will make your life meaningful !
    Have courage and do what is right ! 
    LikeReply1 year ago
  • Dougla$Irishman
    Promoting this lifestyle is wrong, God created Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve ! The evil of this world is a warning to others, Stay true to God and prosper ! Be a Satan follower and you WILL reap the sorrows 1 
    LikeReply1 year ago
    • Drone232
      I did not author the poem, I only post them to fill up poetry.com's repository.
      LikeReply1 year ago

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