A review by robinks
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen

emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

I stumbled upon this collection and was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I definitely snorted with laughter at certain lines and reread to further ponder other ones. Skip the Foreword; I would’ve preferred it as an Afterword because it pulls lines from a few of the poems to comment on them. The poems I loved (as they appear in the collection):
- In the Hospital
- Summer Was Forever
- Self-Portrait With & Without
- Please take off your shoes before entering   do not disturb
- To the Guanacos at the Syracuse Zoo
- Elegy for My Sadness
- Antarctica
- Second Thoughts on a Winter Afternoon
- If I should die tomorrow, please note that I will miss the particular
- Sorrow Song with Optimus Prime
- In This Economy
- When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
- For I Will Consider My Boyfriend Jeffrey
- Little Song
-Poplar Street
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