language and community i guess
its cool i guess
how when i stop trying to sound ‘right’ i find my kind people
people i want to hear me hear me when i use my language
people who demand to hear me say to use their language
i learned for them i write like them i speak like them i sing their endless songs about love and breakups when i want to sing about dragons and laughter and magic and making and life and angry and waves and green
my kind of people cant find me when i am being like them
i don’t know how to not be like them because they made me sound like them they made me write like them i don’t know how i need to sound it all gets stuck in sentence structure and grammar and punctuation and i am trying to lose that and then i get so caught up in trying to find my real language that what i am saying is lost
stop making your kids like me let them be kids let them spin let them flap let them run let them sing shout live
we all communicate its what people do we dont have to talk to do it
i dont know how to find my kind of people because i sound like the wrong people to everyone except the wrong people
