I think it is important to understand how much this book feels like sitting in your friends house as they get out their journal from high school and read it to you. Some of it is very serious and very deep but most of it is I think intentionally not to be taken seriously. The last half in particular is very serious and thoughtful writing while the beginning is not that. I think the reason for the low rating is that I don't always love the emotional whiplash that comes with two very different kinds of poems/stories. I think the parts that hit really did so and had a great impact and I'm happy to sort of chuckle at the tongue in cheek stuff but not both in such a short book.