This piece is featured in Issue No. 5 Flirt

Poetry

Sure-fire Guide to Success

Send a meme
Send twenty
Send a pretty rock that reminds you of her when it costs $30 to mail a rock because rocks are heavy
Of course it's $30, the queer experience is liking girls and enbies in other countries exclusively
Paint her a picture of a walrus
Paint her a picture of a snail
Paint your nails and ask her if she likes the colour; make sure your nails are cut pointedly short
Learn her favourite song on the kalimba and record a tinny version through the phone
Ocarinas and ukuleles are an acceptable substitute 
Show her your collection of cute animals that you cut out from magazines
Invite her to a picnic on Animal Crossing
You don't even play Animal Crossing but she does so you do now
Get a succulent or monstera or fiddle leaf fig and name it something she has jokingly said in passing would be an awful name for a kid
Increasingly begin to reference the plant as your shared kid
Take really good care of that plant and give it your love expecting nothing in return

Sunny Chan

Sunny Chan

Sunny Chan has a PhD in English from UW-Madison and currently lives in the traditional Dish With One Spoon treaty territory. Her creative writing has appeared in Palette Poetry, Interfictions, Ricepaper, The Puritan, Abyss & Apex, Barrelhouse Press, and more. Her visual art can be seen at @moonandmountainprint on Instagram.