An impressive and revealing performance by Neil Hilborn at the 2013 Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam in which he expresses the finding and loss of love through the lens of his own OCD.
Of this funny, heartbreaking piece, which he’s been perfecting and performing for two years now, he sez:
Through a lot of therapy, I have managed to get most of the tics under control, so the poem is more representative of my symptoms at, say, 16 or 17. However, it’s much more difficult to represent obsessions than compulsions, so I decided to focus on those symptoms as they are easier for a broader audience to digest.
