The Silent Treatment

What you give someone with laryngitis
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Bryant and May

A spark of attraction
A match made in heaven?
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Nothing particularly

I’m quiet
You tell me I’m sulking

I’m self-conscious
Feel fat
Acne-smeared
Old
You say I should accept compliments

I’m tired
You ask me what’s wrong

Nothing
Particularly

But
Sometimes it is difficult to live in my mind
And to be inside my skin
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Summer cold

My
Staccato
Bursts of coughing
Pierce the night

Wheezing
Woozy

Giving up on sleep

I

and my cold

Wait for daylight
©cih16, 21:42, 25.07.16

Sometimes the obvious answer is the right one

Sometimes a pencil is just a pencil
And sometimes it's a wooden spear with lead tipped spike waiting to stab...

And sometimes a pencil is just a pencil
©cih16, 25.07.16