even shouting in this cavern won’t force an echoyou could beg for kinder things from rock faceyou could begbut sound?     but light?          but anything you can feast on silence.say the word family say it     family and now speak it into empty rooms and now carve it into your palms and now try to stitch your chest up while you wait to stitch your hands up while you beg to hear their voicesbut you won’t.all empty rooms are silence pactstribal hosts     and love          held overhead               like some conch          some totem     gifted only to the golden you may not speak on this side of     family

NORMAL? WHAT IS THAT? They call me stupid… They call me dumb… I am neither, I am deaf. I can never hear a sound. I talk with my hands. I am neither stupid nor dumb, I am just ME!They call me weird… They call me dumb… They call me worthless… I am neither, I am blind. I never get to see the world. I read with my fingers, not my eyes. I am neither weird nor dumb nor worthless, I am just ME!They call me a problem… They call me an idiot… They call me dangerous… They call me a troublemaker… I am neither, I have autism. I have a handicap. I see things and people differently. I am neither a problem nor an idiot, I am not dangerous or a troublemake...