Poems Written In The Bathtub While Cumming Out is a collection of poems that I began writing in 2017. One night while soaking in the bathtub, trying to figure out how to be a newly Gay Afro-Puerto Rican man, I decided that the poetry I was writing - to soothe and navigate my pain and discomfort - would one day be birthed into a collection. This is that collection. There are three acts. Each act represents a different stage of this spirit-led journey of self-discovery, vulnerability, acceptance, strength, unlearning, liberation, and healing.