Foldable iPhone

I wanna save up a billion dollars so I can buy one of those foldable iPhones
Sydney Sweeney says she wants to take risks
and be able to laugh at herself if she fails
That might be an important part of creativity, plus having someone back you
Which gives you confidence, more and more
We all just wanna have someone huge take us under their wing 🪽
We all wanna be fairly certain we know what we’re doing,
like it’s more important than happiness, more important than dating
I wanna save up a billion dollars so I can buy a foldable iPhone
Every day it seems like there’s more work to do but that’s okay
What are you meant to do? And how many times can you post
on social media before it’s diminishing returns, turning you into nothing?  

Gas

When I see most of yall do a Taylor Napolsky type poem
I get sick to my stomach a lil and I think “This is really bad,”
            Like I feel bad for you!
Getting secondhand embarrassment
Experiencing it baby.
I mean it’s cool to be cringe—there is nothing wrong with that!—but not
that type of cringe
Do you have any idea how that shit sounds?!
            Do you got any idea how it looks
not that you should care necessarily, how it looks.
And definitely not that you should care what I think.
I mean I write most my poems on notes app
Do you think I care what you think.
            You know what people say
            About poems on notes apps?
            You know what it’s like to read comics all day
And then feel bad cuz
You’re also supposed to be reading The Iliad??
But the comics are good
You’re good,
            don’t worry about what I say,
Don’t mind me if I whine about how yall sound.
My phone’s about to die anyway, fuck it  





Taylor Napolsky’s work has appeared in La Piccioletta Barca, Plague Circus Press, and other places, and a novel is forthcoming with Hesse Press—pre-order it today. He edits Bizarre Publishing House.

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