Friday, October 19, 2007

Shrill

How do you do that? Your voice breaks through any din. Is it loud? Off key? Do you have some frequency that hits just my ear that way? Singing, speaking, laughing, yelling, whispering - it doesn't seem to matter. Your voice always comes out at the top.

Please stop. The things you say are mean. They hurt me. I've listened to it for 40 years. Even when you aren't in the same room, the shrillness inhabits the corners of my mind. Still it hurts.

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