Written over two days in April of 1996, "commercial breaks" portrays the raw and intimate world of a girl in the middle of a bipolar manic phase. Over sixty pages in length and consisting of only two poems, "commercial breaks" brings to light the deftness of love lost and found, the search for self, the critique of relationships, and the stigma of mental illness. "commercial breaks" remains as poignant and honest as it did when it was first published online over twenty years ago.