Selective Hearing

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear. - Thoreau

in an invasive double feature of my own worst nightmare

the contorting silence calls out to me like a narcotic stupor

bending the veracity of reality like a beer pretzel

teasing

taunting

stalking and haunting

insulting

daring

ensnaring

surrounded

unsalvageable

you'll never make it

won't get through

you can't change

you're still the same

too set in your ways

you've already had your best days

it's over

hogwash

balderdash

popppycock

sheer idiocy

noise

quiet's freckled face of reason hidden piteously

behind a twisted, grotesque mask

insidiously

you're screwed, skewed and glued

and like a damned, weaselley grison

i listen

while a patient, loving truth sits back and glistens

Author's Note

"In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident." - Thoreau

Reviews

[mattavelli]

Hello, Pete! :)
This reads like an attack of intrusive thoughts. I used to get rivers of them when trying to sleep. We are beasts, as caged in by culture as a tiger is in a zoo. Tequila helps me blow off steam. Haha

[Pete]

so much noise all the time. there is wisdom in salt and worms (tequila). thanks m ... :)