Can you hear me?<\/p>\n
I said, can you HEAR me?<\/p>\n
No, can you hear ME?<\/p>\n
CAN you hear me?<\/p>\n
Can YOU hear me?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
You complain that I get over-dramatic<\/p>\n
But you wouldn’t listen to me until I did<\/p>\n
They say to let out your feelings and say what you mean<\/p>\n
But no one believes me when I use simple words<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
This bothers me<\/p>\n
Well you can get over it<\/p>\n
No I mean this makes me feel like my brain is going to bleed out of my ears<\/p>\n
Did you have to be so over-dramatic?<\/p>\n
Well you didn’t listen to me when I said this was bothering me<\/p>\n
What more choice did I have?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I use the tools of poets and writers<\/p>\n
To try to force you to understand<\/p>\n
That I want to scratch my veins out of my arms<\/p>\n
That shocks of electricity are bouncing like pinball off my skull<\/p>\n
That crowds when they are too close make me want to scream<\/p>\n
That too much tension and closeness makes me want to commit acts of violence<\/p>\n
That unexpected noise jolts me out of my train of thought, derail me, cause me to crash the train, and it takes work to get it back on again<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Do you get it now?<\/p>\n
Do you understand yet?<\/p>\n
Can you hear me now?<\/p>\n
Listen to me<\/p>\n
I’m telling you everything you’ve ever needed to know<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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