NOVI VALLE-PEROLDO

fm DATING IN A STREAMING WORLD

This is not a smirk, it’s a snarl.

First thing you compliment is

My queer smile. Another girl

Taken down by a photo.

Rest in Archives, mama.

“You’re a cool person but...”

“Too complex for me.” I finish,

Knowing the End before the Start.

Screens form false connections

...Video killed the radio star...

Remember when mixtapes were apps?

Hours spent, stereos, double

Cassettes, static on the tape

Commercial-free feelings

Invoking tentative titles,

Dreaming of...yeesh...

You always be my...bah...

Songs to Adore You...

Vanishing ink on plastic

Relics, reminds you of time

Before Algorithms were Love.

NOVI VALLE PEROLDO is a Cuban-Chilean first gen American poet who has been curing her generational trauma with poetry for 24 of her 37 years and maybe good at it the last 5.