I really enjoyed this and wanted to highlight some of my favorite individual poems lines.

"In this world, nothing brittle prevails,
so in this world grease is a compliment,
no, it's a weapon,
no it's a dream you had"
-Shea Butter Manifesto (this whole poem is EXCELLENT)

"my hair was in a zoo. my hair escaped from the zoo and took out three officers of the law before they shot my hair up full of tranquilizers. tranquilizers only because my hair is too valuable to die"
-why you cannot touch my hair (I deeply loved this. I can't relate to strangers wanting to touch my hair, but I've dealt with a love/hate relationship with my curls, and this made me smile)

But the idea of therapy is, like math and the dentist, the kind of thing [my mother] was flatly denied for most of her life and yet is adamant that I pursue relentlessly"
-Thursday Morning, Newbury Street (a fantastic prose piece with a wonderful ending)

"and if my parents love was a comic book,
it never saw polyvinyl, never felt a backing.
it was curled into a back pocket for a day at the park,
lent to a friend, read under covers,
reread hanging upside-down over the back of the couch,
memorized, mishandled, worn thin, staples rusted.
a love like that doesn't last
but it has a good ending."
-Origin Story

"On Prince", "sonnet", and "The Discount Megamall (in memorium)" are all great in very different ways that I don't know how to articulate

Finally my favorite poem and the final in this collection was "Affirmation". These are the final lines and I can't wait to make some hand lettering art of them:

"Somewhere it rains,
and things will grow green and wonderful.
Somewhere inside me, too, it rains,
and things will grow green and wonderful.
Sometimes my insides rain from the inside out
and then I know
I am alive
I am alive
I am alive"