Tuesday, May 03, 2022

self-talk shush

She listens to the radio 
for the voices 
she won't know 
to block and blot and overwrite 
the voice that she
has known in life
the music's bonus antidote 
in thrum and drone 
in pulse and squawk 
she tells herself she's listening 
but she's just trying not to talk 


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