I.
Why do you always speak in twos
in twos?

II.
I speak to myself in the third person,
listen from the
first time I
heard
the first time.

III.
Spoke = I'm stupid = shut up = out of breath.

IV.
I've been holding my tongue for years
everything aches unspeakable aches
that I- and I- and
you-

V.
Mistakes.

VI.
"I wish you were somebody else."
Words can't be unsaid.
"It's all inside your head."
I wish it was, someone else instead,
her instead, her instead,
someone else, someone else said.

VIII.
Always skip the stanza seven.
Couplet in elegy of cousin, in heaven.

IX.
Speak now, or, forever hold your peace.
I chose to hold forever, not knowing
it was all I spoke for.

X.
"Keep quiet, until then."
Hold my breath until when?
Out of breath by stanza ten.

XI.
You must have me mistaken,

XII.
No words.