LIFE Poem: They Won’t Let Me Tell My Story, by Gabriel Wilder

I want to tell a story
But when I open my mouth
Cobwebs and spiders come flying out
I cough up a dead rat, eventually
Who knows how long he’s been in there
But even you can see
The beast start to awaken
You don’t know when it’s coming
But you know that it’s arrived
The second you hear my voice
I speak and cannot stop myself
I don’t close my mouth until they tape it shut again
I become like the dust covered attic
Filled with old memories
But the place where you put the things you don’t want to think about
Or otherwise don’t want to see

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