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How are you who you are and what do you do now that you are?

I gesticulate wildly for real emphasis in my life.
Because only I can hear the screaming in my head.
The words that I produce are frail in comparison-
but they are all that I have-
so they will do.
With flailing I can elucidate the rest of the truth.

Bitter

Asprin on the tongue,
callous against the skin,
hostile and threatening-
screaming it comes.

Suspension of the blood,
combustion within the chest,
clawing and cruel-
biting winter wind.