"Catalyzed by sheltering in place and by a personal challenge to give up alcohol for thirty days, these poems examine pop culture and wellness-The Decameron, juicy thoughtcrimes, love languages, survivor's guilt, and killer skin-care regimens-through a context of crisis and futility. "Think Starlight," the first poem in this collection, written before any self-quarantine orders, imagined the likelihood that the United States would follow in Italy's footsteps in terms of caseload and hospital overwhelm. By March 17, 2020, the imagined was the real; New York City had closed schools, bars, and restaurants-with the rest of the country to follow. With nihilist humor and controlled despair, What to Miss When explores fears of death and grocery shopping, stress cleaning and drinking, influencers behaving badly, everything we took for granted, and life mediated by screens-with dissociation-via-internet, and looking for mirrors in a fourteenth-century pandemic text, a kind of survival response to living casually through catastrophe"--