Bias
(What do words amount to?)
"There is nothing wrong with me," he says.
He likes the cadence of the words, enjoys the softness of the consonants. He rolls them around in his mouth, the words and the sounds of the words, and decides to repeat them.
"There is nothing wrong," he says, "With me."
He believes that repetition enhances impact. He believes in the softness of sound. Do they cancel each other out, the force and the sound? Do they amount to nothing at all? Do words- are words-
It is a blasphemy of sorts. He knows belief is not truth. And who is he to question language? And who is he not to question language?
He breathes deep and keeps the words in his head, all of them. It is not difficult to do so; it is not anything at all.
The words stay. They lend a cadence to his thoughts, but he finds he cannot write.