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Stuttering

I oftentimes realize my inability To speak outright about my personality I oftentimes don't know where to start Which leads to a brain fart Of catastrophic proportions And unable to contort my words into sentences I simply give up, the subject unfinished Because of this tragic disability in my speech I feel that my way of expression is weak And the many things I want to say About anything in general comes back to stay In my mind, in my brain, in my train of thought And entails to derail from the tracks The entrails staining the grass But when I get behind a keyboard My ideas become fluently versed Almost rehearsed And I search for a chat That'll cover a vat Of subjects at the bat The words flow from my brain Through my veins To my heart To my arms And out of my fingers and onto the screen Where, for once, I can clearly read What I wanted to say And smile with glee As I finally make My testimony
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