DO YOUR OWN DAMN LAUNDRY documents a series of thirty-six scheduled live chat performances between Steve Benson, a psychologist and poet, and Suzanne Stein, a poet, essayist, and performance artist. The improvisatory poetic dialogues usually took place weekly between 2011 and 2012 and lasted at least one hour. Initially, they were presented on the social media platform CoverItLive, which allows for a textual dialogue to be performed live with an online audience and the results to be archived, with each entry date and time stamped. The idea of “texting” live for an audience came about because both authors share an interest in performance, collaboration, and non-theatrical improvisation, and were looking for a way to perform together in public despite both living 3,300 miles apart. Steve Benson describes the performance as an experiment in the development of form and genre as well as relationship. Aspects of relational play, tension, connection, and growth will be registered by psychoanalytic readers of the book. Between two and seventy-five people followed them live.