I love this book! This was one of the poems that really hit me. There were so many more too though.

ANTAGONIST

Does a ghost

know that he’s a ghost?

Does a saint

know that she’s forgiven?

If no one knows,

then I don’t know

if I might be

the villain.

I don’t trust the author anymore
slow-paced

i would leave me if i could is an evocative journey, blending poetry with raw emotion & vivid storytelling. it's powerful, honest, and moving.
emotional funny reflective fast-paced
dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
emotional reflective medium-paced

It did not 'wow' me as I thought it would. The only 'poem' I enjoyed was "Wish you the best

There are some in here that really moved me . Overall a good poetry collection but just with all poetry collections or essay collections, it‘s unlikely to receive more than three stars

read this when it first came out and it still hits

I really wanted to like this book. I really did. There should have been content warnings for some of the topics. One of the poems alluded to SA. I wish I had known that so I would've been prepared to read that rather than dealing with my own emotions after.
dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

I just grab this random audio file on my file. Halsey is splendid in songwriting but for this one, I think she lacks a lot in building lines.

One of the important things for me when reading poetry is the connection that the author can provide to me. Everything seems in shambles. There is no direct path on which the story of the poems leads unto.