Culture

A modern meltdown

By Raziel Reid • August 5, 2014 3:18 pm EDT

Steven Boyle’s poem “I Hit Send, or Modern Meltdown” is sweet, funny and painfully honest. He writes about coming out and trying to find the courage to tell a guy that he loves him for the first time and, with a little audience participation at the Penn State reading, proves that laughter is the quickest way to the heart:

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