“DIVINE ASSIGNMENT” by MICHAEL CHANG
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DIVINE ASSIGNMENT
By MICHAEL CHANG
at AWP hotel bar
doing shots w/ the interns
guileless civilians
eager bateman types
lovely & exorbitant
i was generally quite happy w/ cheese
who couldโve predicted that this would be
the year of the gooners
putting the โhogโ in hogtied
we choose to ignore it
the cake iโve hidden from u
le creusetยฎ dutch oven
tickets to that racist patti lupone
tucked inside
Copyright ยฉ Michael Chang
MICHAEL CHANG (they/them) is the author of THINGS A BRIGHT BOY CAN DO (Coach House, 2025) and HEROES (Temz Review/845 Press, 2026). Their work has appeared in AGNI, the American Poetry Review, the Greensboro Review, Harvard Review, the Iowa Review, and POETRY. In Canada, their poems have appeared in the Capilano Review, Contemporary Verse 2 (CV2), the Fiddlehead, filling Station (fS), the Malahat Review, PRISM International, and elsewhere.
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