2016

I don’t have any photos of 2016

And hardly any memories because

That was the year I started therapy

And got diagnosed as bipolar;

I was told that it wasn’t all in my head.

But it was

In my head

Because my head was the problem

And the solution was to write down all of

The things that had been sitting in there

For years.

I wrote a book and it was about sadness and

Then I wrote another about pain

And one about grief until

I got to writing stories about joy and

Quiet rebellion and whimsy

With animal friends who don’t care if

It’s all in your head

In my head

In someone’s head that is new to the

Sadness pain grief joy quiet rebellion whimsy

And then they feel

Something from 2016 that

We can share the weight of.

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