NYC Diary #46

MONDAY

4:12 p.m. My birthday is coming up. What can I even say about this year?

I thought I’d found true love. I thought I had friends who were going to stick it out.

I thought, finally, professionally, the poetry world was going to just let me do my thing, which is all I’ve ever wanted to do.

You know who I’m real proud to share a birthday with. This bitch below.

Alex Dimitrov is tough but Marina Abramovic invented tough and who taught me (my grandmother too—but she was a lot like Marina in spirit).

I want you all to watch this clip. And right after, don’t even finish this diary, I want you to go to Spotify or Apple Music or whatever the fuck, and look up Lady Gaga, That’s Life. And blast it. And think about me. And my favorite poem.