A POEM by MIRO

Chicken Sandwich

i am a loose goose idiot

on two mezcal cocktails

and a chicken sandwich,

fried, because health

is a construct like the calendar,

like time created to offer

the illusion of stability though if we all

stopped for a moment and got real

quiet, we’d feel the earth

wobbling like a loose goose idiot

lightweight cheap date giggling

her way through the chaos

on her second mezcal cocktail

in search of the perfect chicken

sandwich, fried.

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Miro (she/her) is a poet based in NYC. Her work has previously been published in [InHerSpaceJournal], A Thin Slice of Anxiety, and Modern Renaissance, among others. Her debut collection of poetry, “Ebb and Flow,” was released in 2021 by Read or Green Books. When Miro isn’t putting words on the page, you can find her eyebrow-deep in a book.