xenoglossolalia by Megan A. Volpert

there are some rooms where for unnamed reasons i have not however casually glanced up at the ceiling walls may hold language i have not yet capacity to speak i find myself how do you say____________beautiful oh_____she said____english is not your first language well____i replied____speech is not my first language but because it is so very challenging to love my self in the word i have devoted my life to it louis xiv had cannonballs inscribed ultima ratio regnum______the last argument of kings but i prefer square objects like those atop the paris moma chairs where mother and i lunched blanc de poulet doré minute___curry et chutney magnue took photos of those beautiful chairs felt like daisy buchanan square objects because more easily they generate round ideas poems do not fly as the crows do this is how i came to understand the value of curvature and the deliberate construction of my self as super hero

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