If You Can't See Anything Beautiful About

You See, The Deaf Have An Intimacy With Silence. It’s There In Their Dreams.

Don't Tell Me That [broken Heartstrings] Hurt Less Than A Broken Bone, That An Ingrown Life Is Something Surgeons Can Cut Away, That There's No Way For It To Metastasize - It Does.

I've Been Told That People In The Army Do More By 7:00 Am Than I Do In An Entire Day But If I Wake At 6:59 Am And Turn To You To Trace The Outline Of Your Lips With Mine I Will Have Done Enough And Killed No One In The Process.

But We Are More Than Genteel Or Civilized/ We Are An Idea In The Process Of Being Realized.

Having Seen Ted From A Distance, I Always Thought If Ever There Was A Place For Someone Like Me, The Outcasts, People Who Maintained Who They Are Despite Being Told What They Were, It Was Ted.