I am Trying to Break Your Heart (Kevin Young)

The title of this poem by Kevin Young reminds me of a Wilco song. The images within kind of remind me of the interior of an Urban Outfitters. Is this a poem centered in the early 2000s? As I read, I imagined that this was N's bitter rant after a bad breakup at university.

Urban Outfitter objets d'art

Ha, yep. I totally call it (or least, I totally would like to) - from the Wilco-inspired title to the ironic use of taxidermy to describe (a lost) love to the bits of antiquated language (definitely an English major, this one). Okay, maybe not, but I can make the case for it. I do enjoy poetry for its malleability.

I enjoy this poem for its sense of time and place, its use of metaphor and its standout lines - namely, this one which coalesces all of the poem's metaphors and angst into one crystal line:

Favorite line: "Loneliness is a science—"