An Update to Your Order
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.