You erase me
when you hear
within my words
not me but a projection
of some social phenomena.

My words, undoubtedly,
at times, without knowing
tap into a shared or partially shared
reality known to some.

I would avoid any words
that could cause some aspects
of me, to be
rejected.

Please do not share more
of that material?
What material?

I don’t want to talk about it.

The boy hides from
a disapproving look
instead of taking it inside
as a directive to guide
behavior.

The boy learns of a world
that is less predictable.

Through a screening process
we remove what might
offend, upset, trigger
or make uncomfortable
anyone who could hear
something we did not intend
to conform to a socially comfortable
grammar of known subjects
suitable for different rooms
and different people.

Get to the point!
As if there was a simple point
among the diversity of possible
utterances
that could make it through
a screening process -
a censorship –
of ideas heard and
unintended…
ideas only understood
by someone who heard
something that could not have been
anticipated?

The echoes of a feeling return -
a knowing that one did something
wrong
according to someone
who in the stating of the fact
also stated a refusal to discuss
(clarify?)…
creating the double bind rule
that turns a person
into a paranoid avoider.