i want you to be excited about your life (2012) — ebook

i want you to be excited about your life

santino dela

ebook, 2012

Written in a time before polish, before strategy, before distance, this ebook is a collection of love poems, fragments, confessions, and nervous transmissions composed directly into the computer—addressed to a real person, a screen, and a feeling that couldn’t be held any other way.

These poems move quickly and without permission: from devotion to fear, from innocence to trauma, from humor to grief. They are naïve on purpose. Earnest without defense. They document what it feels like to fall in love while still figuring out how to exist.

There is no narrative arc, no resolution, no performance of wisdom. Just presence. Just urgency. Just a voice saying this is how I feel right now, knowing it will feel differently later.

This ebook is not a retrospective.

It is a time capsule.

A pulse.

A record of attention.

For readers drawn to raw internet poetry, early digital intimacy, and work that values sincerity over refinement.