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a rumblethis breath would take our youthin daily mute moments setthem – in a row –before comrade, stranger, witness,parse each word with hefta soft succour of violencebalm of pain speech actaerate each and everyfifty minutes to one hourlong self-indulgent diatribesin vestibules, in officessetting our prefixes, suffixes, in a fixed row—of wrong and right and did… Continue reading for those of us who learned to speak in therapy

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a rumble
this breath would take our youth
in daily mute moments set
them – in a row –
before comrade, stranger, witness,
parse each word with heft
a soft succour of violence
balm of pain speech act
aerate each and every
fifty minutes to one hour
long self-indulgent diatribes
in vestibules, in offices
setting our prefixes, suffixes, in a fixed row—
of wrong and right and did me this poor way heed

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me now

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my voice on the wind

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zooming

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echo
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\n take one year’s state-mandated isolation call it endemic\n
epidemic pandemic gick ick ic ic ic ic ic\n
learn to speak only to yourself again\n
undo all your social learning\n
call it [selective] mutism\n

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\n re-enter society monologuing —how those of us who learned to speak in therapy\n
were taught\n
to an audience speak\n

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Lauren Foley

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Lauren Foley is proudly bisexual, and disabled. She was awarded a Next Generation Artist’s Award in Literature from the Arts Council of Ireland. Her debut short story collection, Polluted Sex, is forthcoming from Influx Press, April 2022

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