Anti-Love Poems

Many of us have looked for love in all the wrong places. We have dating apps, deal breakers, love languages, fear of missing out, date-night appointments, long-distance relationships, ghosting, emotional unavailability, conflict issues, couples counseling, fierce independence and co-dependence, not to mention record divorce rates and identity and political divides. Self-help books are a 12 billion-dollar industry that’s growing each year, and we’re all trying to figure it out. This selection of poems show the less idealistic side of love.