You won't likely understand what I'm now going to say. That's fine...my concern is that I, at some point, won't.
Speak will these fingers nonetheless:
I finally figured out, I think, why these people around me now don't "hear" me.
It is because they are Latinate*. They are cerebral. The struggle they have is to reabsorb themselves with the earth.
(the uh, the ah, the low, the base, the mud the dark)
When I intend to speak a truth, from the low place,
[hung low /er than bowels]
they only see the words, the letters.
they don't hear the sounds.
i have marvelled at language that is tonal only 'til now realizing that speaking with tones is something I already do.
perhaps I'll try to preface these flashes of music with a request that they feel me with a bone further down than their heads.
perhaps their Sternum.
#youfeelme?
(*no not "latino/a/x)
