joshua young
 & 
alexis pope

Image by Peter Cole Friedman

from I Am Heavy w/ Feeling

OK if poetry is like OK Cupid

OK if poetry is like OK Cupid 

what is academia

I probably will send

you pictures of yourself reading

with lines from your book

I guess what I’m saying though

is that I want to tell you about

my heated car seats

I mean I don't even

have a car

that’s ok right

emojis of balloons

emojis of crying

yeah yeah

we miss each other

that is natural

speaking of party ghosts

there's a joke beginning

with Lisa Loeb

ending with Ethan Hawke

it's probably his first novel

here's my new thing:

let's file this under friendship

it's a bummer how

expensive planes are

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JOSHUA YOUNG is the author of four collections, most recently, The Holy Ghost People (Plays Inverse Press). His work has appeared in Bat City Review, Gulf Coast, Fugue, Puerto del Sol, Vinyl, Nightblock, and others. He is Editor-in-Chief at The Lettered Streets Press and Associate Director of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago. 

ALEXIS POPE is the author of Soft Threat (Coconut Books, 2014), as well as three chapbooks. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bat City Review, Denver Quarterly, No Dear, Poor Claudia :: Phenome, and The Volta, among others. She lives in Brooklyn.