My name is Matthew Tabrizizadeh (TUH-bree-z-ZAH-day). "Mental" is based on a true story, magical if anything, the brain going from sane to insane because the name of the game: rationality versus irrationality, intelligible voices versus the mind, it also fighting anxiety and depression. Imagine the tension.
This micro chapbook has 10 pages of verse poetry, an atypical read, about mental illnesses, with words poetically timed, a rhyme for every other line—something that hooks readers, much like reading my last name for the very first time. It's no secret that emotions get the best of people, things starting shiny then becoming suddenly blue, when it feels like the end—absolutely not true.
From me to you, I hope you enjoy this chapbook too.