1. The condition I have scrawled across my face looks like a frown, it’s so red that I might as well be bleeding anyway.
2. School is where most of my family is.
3. My teachers are NOT like my parents.
4. When I say yes, I actually mean no.
5. When I say no, I actually mean yes.
6. When I say “I don’t know”, it actually does mean “I don’t know”
7. You can tell that I like confusing people.
8. A turtle’s spine and ribs are fused together with its shell so they are stuck together. I believe this is an accurate representation of the relationship I have with my bed.
9. Remind me to thank my English B class for introducing me to slam poetry
10. Remind me to thank the Button Poetry YouTube channel for countless hours of awesomeness
11. Ever since I got into slam poetry, I seem to really like the sound of snapping.
12. We interrupt this program to bring you an awkward silence…
13. That awkward silence was where you were supposed to snap.
14. The people who need to hear this poem will never hear this poem
15. I wrote more than 10 poems finished an unfinished. And yet I choose to tell this story.
16. I try to convince myself that I’m not a poet, only a musician. But us musicians just take poetry and add whatever music we have lying around our messy rooms.
17. Random acts of kindness don’t seem to be looking for me, and yet I still have hope for the future.
18. I put capitals in words that shouldn’t be capitalized, but this mostly happens when I type my lab reports for my science classes.
19. If my assignment is due on Monday morning, I will purposely wait until Sunday night just to see if I really can beat the clock.
20. When I don’t finish the assignment I purposefully procrastinated on, yes, I feel bad about it. Yes, I know I could’ve done better.
21. I shake in my sleep for no reason, is it really this hard to stay still?
22. I am the most impatient person I know. So after learning that true love doesn’t happen like it does in the movies, I decided to give up waiting and I just moved on.
23. I’d like to believe that time travel would benefit people, but for people like me, we realized that fixing the past doesn’t make up for the problems of the future.
24. My friends at school are the coolest people I know!
25. I’m trying to figure out the meaning of life as if it were a math problem.
26. The words “Thank you” Don’t seem like a long enough phrase to mean something, when you really want it to mean something.
27. My window is shining with the glow of the amber streetlight on this street corner, and I wonder if anyone will walk by my house.
28. The first time I read this poem, I will wonder why I wrote it.
29. The last time I read this poem, I won’t know it will be the last time
30. It’s not what I said, it’s how I said it. And if you applaud at the end, I’ll know I did something right.
The only listing poem that ever really worked out for me.
