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Remember when you learned about words, when you learned about vowels. The world opened up and then, speech became about want. I want this doll. I want this dress. I want to taste. I want to feel. I want to touch. When want turned to longing, which is just the sister of need, and longing turned to anger, and anger turned to sadness, sadness turned to resentment, to apathy, to need, to affection, to want, to hurt, to longing, to anger; and the sun went down on time.
When you learned about communication, and then you learned that no one was really listening. Remember the first time you choked back your sound and felt it burn in your throat, hovering between your tongue and your stomach.
I started with silence. I learned the alphabet. I learned English. I learned no one listens, or at least no one listens to believe. I learned silence, again.