Patrick Roche – “Canonization”

Performed by Patrick Roche

“Saint of the quiet anxiety / Of the off-brand panic attack / Saint of attacking”

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Patrick Roche – “Retcon”

Performed by Patrick Roche

“I relearn the language of a smile and I think of what a luxury it would be to erase or reset at the stroke of a pen.”

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Patrick Roche – “Poem in Which Flowers are Replaced by My Brain”

Performed by Patrick Roche

“My brain buds and blooms and is a symbol of love when gifted to a partner.”

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Patrick Roche – “Fairy Tale”

Performed by Patrick Roche

“Watch as I become everything I was promised in a bedtime story.”

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Patrick Roche – “My Brain Plays a Game of Telephone”

Performed by Patrick Roche

“My boyfriend says he loves me. Anxiety says he loves me but for how long? Depression says he shouldn’t love me. I say, ‘I love you too.’”

Don’t miss this phenomenal poem from Patrick Roche, performed and recorded in his home.

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Patrick Roche – “Hocus Pocus”

Performed by Patrick Roche

“As a child, watching the Sanderson sisters consume their victims, everyone would joke that I would never have to worry about that. The joke being that no one would want to eat me because I’m too thin.”

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Patrick Roche – “Every 40 Seconds” (500K Views!)

“This is a eulogy for those swallowed by their own minds.”

Congratulations to Patrick Roche for topping 500,000 views on this incredible poem! Watch more from Patrick here and here.

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Patrick Roche – “Orpheus is My Boyfriend”

Performed by Patrick Roche

“Orpheus is my boyfriend. A harp in his hands, lyrics happy, a trumpet of smile teaching the dead to sing.”

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Patrick Roche – “Ode to Streetlights (after Carly Rae Jepsen)”

Performed by Patrick Roche

“Watch me fight for that. For finding joy in whatever brightness may fall on us.”

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Patrick Roche – “Couples Therapy” (500K Views!)

“Every Thursday, I go to couples therapy with my depression. He whispers in my ear to stay in bed for another day, presses his palm into my chest, afraid I’m going to escape the covers.”

Congratulations to Patrick Roche on topping 500,000 views on this powerful poem! Watch more videos from Patrick here and here!



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