Circuitry

You know when you are in a business meeting

and the heat swells between mouths

and suddenly the wires in your head cross,

short-circuit?

Your thoughts begin to glitch on short phrases that

may

or may not be intelligible

and it isn’t until

you leave the swell that your brain’s wires uncross

and you untangle your thoughts into cohesive, intelligible

sentences, but you still live with the fact that you were

unable to cut through the heat on your own in the

business moment.

Now imagine if that happened to you all day.

With your peers,

your closest friends,

your family,

your brain slowed and struggled with

or even stopped at words

and you had to live with all of those moments

in all of those spaces.

Would you melt down occasionally?

Me too.