have you eaten yet by Chen Chen
have you eaten yet
Chen Chenthe mystery of your lungs
the spaceship of your yes
the ethereal of your puns
the eternal of your sexts
the chic vivacity
of your spiritual & political & sensual rage
the tiny
extremely
efficient post office
of your least wild dreams
the enormous
hocus of your trembling pocus
the dirt of your muse
the deity of your musk
why
haven’t you eaten yet
this daily
breath of yours
come eat
this chest magic brain planet
this mischief
& power
this anger
good anger
your anger
from which you sing your most joyful
deepest no
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This poem appeared in Split This Rock, 2023.
ABOUT CHEN CHEN
Chen Chen is the author of two books of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (2022) and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (2017), both published by BOA Editions and by Bloodaxe Books in the UK. His latest chapbook is Explodingly Yours (Ghost City Press, 2023). His writing is widely anthologized, including in 100 Poems That Matter, 100 Queer Poems, Poetry Is Not a Luxury, three editions of The Best American Poetry, and… (more)
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