List

1. It has become quite apparent that many good poets have poems that contain or are lists.

2. This is mine. Please be loose with the term “good” for this poet (that’s me).

C. No one ever uses letters so I'll be the first one.

4. I changed my fucken mind.

5. Portland, you are too kind. Why aren't you booing me yet?

6. You can boo all the fuck you want, I still got two minutes.

7.

8.

9. and

10. didn't think it was funny.

11. Yes, I went there.

12. There are plenty of fish in the sea, too bad I want to date girls.

13. Don't tell me only time can tell because time can only tell time and even then, it requires a person to tell it. Shut the fuck up.

14. Trees don't grow on money either.

15. is only divisible by three and five—two prime numbers that created another number that can only be divided between each other. You gotta admit, that's fucken beautiful.

16. Skip to my lou my darling, and scrub the dirty ass diseased bacterial infested toilet with the tears of women who suffered from oppressive male hands for centuries and centuries and centuries.

17. Oh seventeen. You're such a crappy number.

18. Is barely legal. So they say. Unless god tells you that 8 is okay.

19. Random single people will pay

20. bucks or more at some

21. and over club only to fall in the catch

22s. of social norms.

23. Change truly is inevitable because in any

24. hour day, you'll find that anything is possible, good or bad.

25. Is when I decided to move to Portland on a whim. A lot has happen between

26. and 29. The thought of listing that overwhelms me and I find so many mixed emotions about closing this chapter. From the drive through German Town in the Spring, to the pockets of neighborhoods and local shops, to the few days of snow we get in a year, to the good conversations I've had with good people... Portland is beautiful. I know I will miss standing up here, sharing all the hiccups in my mind and the pulses in my veins. You will always have a very special place inside my guts or something.

30. is where I am now. And when it comes my list, my list of all lists... I think it's just getting started.

I miss you #portland #pdx #backspace. Shout out to #eireanbradley for being the best poetry slam emcee in the history of slam poetry emcees. Thanks for always encouraging me.