Table of Contents
Acceptance Speech after Setting the World Record in Goosebumps 1
The Year of No Grudges, or Instead of Writing a Furious Text, I Try a Poem 5
The Museum of Broken Relationships 10
Time Piece 16
Queer Youth Are Five Times More Likely to Die by Suicide 22
No Such Thing as the Innocent Bystander 26
To Whom It Definitely Concerns, 27
Every Time I Ever Said I Want to Die 29
Instead of Depression 32
What Love Is 33
Homesick: a Plea for Our Planet 36
The Day Prince Died 40
My Gender Is the Undoing of Gender 43
Spelling Bee Without Stinger 45
The Night Shift 46
Love Me to Life 50
Love Letter to the Tick that Got Me Sick 53
After the Break-Up, Our Tandem Bike Speaks: 57
Neighbors 59
Note to the Stranger Six Feet Away: 63
Good Grief 64
The Call, Option 1 65
The Call, Option 2 70
What Can't Be Taken 73
The Test of Time 74
Aliens Explain Why They Are Visiting Earth 78
Constellations Rearrange Themselves into a Protest Sign 81
Climate Change 82
Wellness Check 84
My Girlfriend's Karaoke Song 85
What You Wish You'd Said to the High School Guidance Counselor 88
What Sucks About the Afterlife 90
How the Worst Day of My Life Became the Best 92
Life Sentence 95
Not Alone 96
How I Became a Poet 99
See This Through 104
The Last Hours 108
Acknowledgements 113
About the Author 115
