An Update to Your Order

i'm so / gone for you still. so gone baby / but your 2 hashbrowns and / side of horseradish aren't.

An Update to Your Order
Photo by Joshua Lawrence / Unsplash

by Jenna Jaco


hey baby hey baby hey

your pickup window has shifted

it’s next june now baby. i’m so

gone for you still. so gone baby

but your 2 hashbrowns and

side of horseradish aren’t.

they aren’t here yet. you

can’t be gone til you arrive.

beautiful how words have little

clocks in them. return and confirm

and open and come. i love that

baby. metro rail’s pulling up baby.

eventually i think. app’s weird.

toe’s cold. just the one. hey baby

come suck it til june.


Jenna Jaco (they/she) is a poet and technical writer from Texas. They are the author of Mall Water (Kith Books, 2024). She has had poems published in Ghost City Review, Peach Mag, Foglifter, and elsewhere, and writes unmarketable content at Cherub Microplastics.