Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. STATUS is a collection of commiserations, wisdoms, placeholders, remembrances, lessons, guiding principles, wives' tales, riddles, puns, purges, time management tools, and helpful hints. It is an amalgamation of reiterations, fortunes, factoids, and foibles. There are spills and freezes. This representation is full of forget-me-nots, deciphers, misfires, and strikes. Somewhere between poem, prompt, and punditry lies Pithos, the quip, the quick, the truth, an emergent poetic form: the Facebook status.