Hand-Crank Paper

Don't ask me to speak aloud.
There are switches to
Fill in blanks
In cadence
Imprecise and chopped together
From your scraps.

Double time my interpretation into
Auditory stimulation of
Communication centers
Beyond the inherent
Protocol for the duration of
The mechanism.

(music boxes cranked fast
Distort tunes
Throw off gears
And break springs. )

Words that don't need voices

Best experiences of friendship
are ones we build ourselves,
without oversight of
other people’s expectations.

My best moments of friendship
have been the ones that
we each do
our own thing in the room

and on some good thought or idea
imed each other from across
the room and
taken joy from that simpleness

Of communicating in our langauge
instead of “out loud”. typing
words that
don’t need voices

Written for Lydia at AutisticSpeaks.