Joshua Young & Alexis Pope
from I Am Heavy w/ Feeling
What shook us what clanged
against the inside of this
I’m being vague because
mostly feelings can be
one-sided ok so what I mean is
that our neighbors have more money
than I will ever have—
I’m not implying anything
they’re good people so this is just factual
& Ryan & I keep texting let’s get famous
but I really want that because
it means I could pay off my loans
love is harder without money love
is harder when the guts that got it going
become barely something worth
nostalgia’s time
remember when we used to fuck
& it meant something
outside of ourselves
remember how it shook us
remember the moon cut in half
by clouds & you said don’t ruin this with a poem
come here
you said come here
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Joshua Young is the author of THE HOLY GHOST PEOPLE (2014) and Psalms for the Wreckage (forthcoming 2017), both from Plays Inverse Press, as well as three other collections and a split-chapbook, Sedro-Woolley Days: A Damien Jurado Mixtape, alongside Talin Tahajian. His work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Puerto del Sol, Salt Hill, Fugue, cream city review, Public Pool, and Court Green, among others. He is Editor-in-Chief for The Lettered Streets Press and works at the University of Chicago. He lives in the Albany Park neighborhood with two humans.
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Alexis Pope is the author of Soft Threat (2014), as well as three chapbooks. Poetry and nonfiction work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, cream city review, Hobart, Poor Claudia, Prelude, The Volta, and West Branch, among others. Pope lives in Chicago with her daughter.
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