Love Poems for Anxious People

Zusatztext "Kenney's sweet, funny poems about the banal and everydaytoo-true nods to the intimacy of sharing a bed with someone without touching at all, or the nothing-speak of corporate communicationmake great presents for spouses, friends, and work wives." Vanity Fair This is a collection of poems rooted in the day-to-day minutiae of life's little stressors. Kenney is able to capture these moments with a comedic salve. There may have never been a moment when we've needed these more. Just like the daily affirmation app tells us: 'Today is going to be a great day.' And Kenney, like us, knows that it is not. --Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star Informationen zum Autor John Kenney Klappentext In the spirit of his New York Times bestseller Love Poems for Married People and Love Poems for People with Children , as well as his wildly popular New Yorker pieces, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious new collection of poetry for anxious people. With the same brilliant wit and hilarious realism that made Love Poems for Married People and Love Poems for People with Children such hits, John Kenney is back with a brand new collection of poems, this time taking on one of the most common feelings in our day-and-age: anxiety. Kenney covers it all, from awkward social interactions and insomnia to nervous ticks and writing and rewriting that email. What to think if someone has given you this book as a gift Perhaps you are thinking, Hey. Someone has just given me this book and it has the word anxious in the title. Asshole. Don't worry. Just because someone gave you this book does not mean they think you are anxious or uptight or have "issues." But chances are you are anxious and uptight and most likely have issues. And no, that is not an insult. It is a compliment. It means you are very likely an interesting person. But also complicated and probably difficult to live with, even though you think you are easy to live with (a classic sign of someone who is difficult to live with). The point is to simply enjoy the book in the spirit with which it was given. Which most likely was a ploy to get you to see a therapist. Also to possibly regift it to a person you know who, like you, has serious emotional issues. What to think if you bought this book for yourself Good for you. It says a great deal about you that you would carry around a book with the word anxious in the title. Especially since you are not anxious. Oh sure, there's a little bubble of fear that sits in your stomach most days. But who doesn't have that? (Calm people.) Anxiety is a total stranger to you. Well, maybe not a total stranger. Maybe you see anxiety in the neighborhood from time to time. Heck, maybe you have welcomed anxiety into your home, had a coffee and a laugh. Well, maybe not a laugh so much as a question. And that question was about your persistent cough and whether you should have an MRI that very day. The point is to relax. Remember, you are not an anxious person. And you are holding a book with the word anxious on the cover to prove it. But also thinking that maybe you should return it and hoping you've kept the receipt. What to think if you borrowed this book from a friend or the library Really? You couldn't buy this? I'm a freelance poet, for God's sake. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get the IRS to even recognize that as a real thing? Wow. WebMD It started out simple enough. A brief search. Kanker sore. Which I spelled wrong and now realize is a district in India as well as the...

"Kenney's sweet, funny poems about the banal and everyday—too-true nods to the intimacy of sharing a bed with someone without touching at all, or the nothing-speak of corporate communication—make great presents for spouses, friends, and work wives." —Vanity Fair

“This is a collection of poems rooted in the day-to-day minutiae of life’s little stressors. Kenney is able to capture these moments with a comedic salve. There may have never been a moment when we’ve needed these more. Just like the daily affirmation app tells us: 'Today is going to be a great day.' And Kenney, like us, knows that it is not.” --Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star

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John Kenney

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In the spirit of his New York Times bestseller Love Poems for Married People and Love Poems for People with Children, as well as his wildly popular New Yorker pieces, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious new collection of poetry for anxious people.

With the same brilliant wit and hilarious realism that made Love Poems for Married People and Love Poems for People with Children such hits, John Kenney is back with a brand new collection of poems, this time taking on one of the most common feelings in our day-and-age: anxiety. Kenney covers it all, from awkward social interactions and insomnia to nervous ticks and writing and rewriting that email.

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What to think if someone has given you this book

as a gift

Perhaps you are thinking, Hey. Someone has just given me this book and it has the word anxious in the title. Asshole.

Don't worry. Just because someone gave you this book does not mean they think you are anxious or uptight or have "issues."

But chances are you are anxious and uptight and most likely have issues. And no, that is not an insult. It is a compliment. It means you are very likely an interesting person.

But also complicated and probably difficult to live with, even though you think you are easy to live with (a classic sign of someone who is difficult to live with).

The point is to simply enjoy the book in the spirit with which it was given. Which most likely was a ploy to get you to see a therapist. Also to possibly regift it to a person you know who, like you, has serious emotional issues.

What to think if you bought this book

for yourself

Good for you.

It says a great deal about you that you would carry around a book with the word anxious in the title. Especially since you are not anxious.

Oh sure, there's a little bubble of fear that sits in your stomach most days. But who doesn't have that? (Calm people.)

Anxiety is a total stranger to you. Well, maybe not a total stranger. Maybe you see anxiety in the neighborhood from time to time. Heck, maybe you have welcomed anxiety into your home, had a coffee and a laugh. Well, maybe not a laugh so much as a question. And that question was about your persistent cough and whether you should have an MRI that very day.

The point is to relax. Remember, you are not an anxious person. And you are holding a book with the word anxious on the cover to prove it.

But also thinking that maybe you should return it and hoping you've kept the receipt.

What to think if you borrowed this book from

a friend or the library

Really?

You couldn't buy this?

I'm a freelance poet, for God's sake.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to get the IRS to even recognize that as a real thing?

Wow.

WebMD

It started out simple enough.

A brief search.

Kanker sore.

Which I spelled wrong

and now realize is a district in India

as well as the Dutch slang

for a very bad word

and also, somehow, cancer.

Which led me to a site that linked

canker sores to cold sores

showing how oral cancer lesions

can mimic an open canker sore,

symptoms of which include

mouth pain and difficulty swallowing

(both of which I suddenly had)

as I followed a link to

the definition of head and neck cancer

which I did not know was a thing

nor did I realize I was now at risk of it

as a result of my mouth lesion/canker/cancer sore

which often causes

golf-ball-size tumors

resulting in blindness, lack of motor function,

and complete sexual dysfunction.

Which is good to know.

Then I looked up an earache I was having

and it turns out I ha…