Poem of the Day
Anyway, did you know that I wear
bad luck like wet shoes?
Can you believe it’s been four years since my last
date? I’m cleaned out when it comes to mood:
eager, enthusiastic, excited.
Fuck it. Actual texts I get from
guys:
hi or
jk or
lol—I digress. I am
making things even more difficult. God, I’m really
never gonna get laid again.
Okay, okay, I’m being a little dramatic. I should be on meds,
probably, but I’m too self-conscious to ask my therapist
questions, and tell him how
reality outside his room with the blue carpet and wood paneling
sucks.
Truly terrible. Apologies in advance for the ongoing mutiny in
my head, one
usurper of good intentions after another, but hey,
vicious cycles have to end at some point. You know I’m done for
when I love men the way I failed algebra. Find
x, solve for why.
Yearning for the exact inexactness of my design,
zodiac signs, the numbers, the what-else out there.
Hannah Cohen received her MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte. Hannah is the author of two poetry chapbooks from Glass Poetry Press: Year of the Scapegoat (2022) and Bad Anatomy (2018). Hannah is one of the founding editors of the online literary journal Cotton Xenomorph. Publications include the University of Arizona's Poetry Center blog 1508, Michigan Quarterly Review, Booth, Hey Alma, Pidgeonholes, Qu Lit Mag, The Offing, The Rumpus, Cherry Tree, Drunk Monkeys, and others. She was a Best of the Net 2018 finalist and a Pushcart Prize nominee.
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