Neil Hilborn

"When you're dumb enough for long enough, you're gonna meet someone too smart to love you, and they're gonna love you anyway, and it's gonna go so poorly," Neil Hilborn writes in his debut full-length collection, OUR NUMBERED DAYS. In 2013, Hilborn's poem "OCD" went viral, and has amassed over 11 million views to date. While this collection ruminates on love, heartbreak, and mental illness, these poems are anything but saccharine. Hilborn uses the same humor and self-deprecation that propelled "OCD" to success in order to make his unmatched vulnerability all the more powerful. Ultimately, Hilborn is a poet of the people: his work is accessible, honest, and entertaining; a revitalizing entry in contemporary poetry.

Our Numbered Days

High Fidelity

Ashley J Brown

"...Just like a child. Love how you hate yourself sometimes, because goddamn, at least there's still something to hate. It's so easy to think and keep thinking until you are the last person left on earth. 
Until the entire world is no larger than the space between your bed and the light switch."

“You will never be more wrong than the first time you say "I love you." You will mean it, sure, but you'll still be lying.”

"When you're dumb enough for long enough, you're gonna meet someone too smart to love you, and they're gonna love you anyway, and it's gonna go so poorly"

Logan Dittbrenner

I had a hard time getting into this poem collection. It was not amazing and it was not terrible either. Some of the poems I enjoyed more than others and now want to check out the author presenting his poem “OCD”.

Olivera Mitić

I've been a fan of Neil Hilborn for a while now and once I saw that he had a published potry collection I couldn't wait to get my hands on it. 

Neil is a wonderful slam poet. He has extremely powerful work and in the past few years he managed to move me with it in many ways. That being said, I don't think this collection reflects his talent at all. Some of my favorite pieces, and what I'd like to call his best work, weren't in here. The poems that were here, tho, were a bit nonsensical and not hard hitting or poetic enough for my taste.

Having read this, I do think his poetry works much better when you hear it spoken out loud and from now on I suppose that will be my medium of taking his stuff in. 

The two poems from here I really liked were Future Tense and OCD and I would highly recommend you to chekc them out.

Carolina Lopes

You will never be more wrong than the first time
you say “I love you”. You will
mean it, sure, but you’ll still be lying.

4,5*
Really, really enjoyed this. OCD is still my favorite poem. I'll link the author reciting it if you'd like to watch it (spoiler alert - I cry every time I do):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnKZ4...

Brianna Brown

I found this book on accident. I stumbled upon a video of the poem Joey, and I was instantly hooked. I don't think I could've found this at a better time in my life.

Our Numbered Days

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