Steven Cordova Doom Scrolling ↓ Doom scrolling Doom scrolling I’m scrolling scrolling scrolling along ↓ Doom scrolling Doom scrolling I’m polling polling The polling ↓ Doom scrolling Doom scrolling Trump is trolling He’s trolling trolling along ↓ Doom scrolling Doom scrolling All the day long For so long I’m doom scrolling Doom scrolling along ↑
—Submitted on 10/15/2020
Steven Cordova is the author of Long Distance (Bilingual Review Press, 2010). His poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Callaloo, The Journal, Notre Dame Review, and the Los Angeles Review, among other journals. He reviews fiction and nonfiction for Lambda Literary. From San Antonio, he lives in Brooklyn.
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