A Steady Situation 2, Part 6

Of all the things that happened to me over the past few months, that’s definitely the one thing I wished didn’t. So, people use forks. They walk using forks. They trip over using forks. People get stabbed by people using forks. They don’t mean to stab you with the fork.

Breathing

Deep breathing

Are you all right?

I’m sure I am, I can’t say it, though.

I don’t mean to look like an idiot

I really am trying to talk

No, don’t get everyone else

Alright, so everyone else is here

What’s that?

Whatever you do, don’t press me with that cloth

A collage of odd faces asking if I’m alright

On some level to me that’s foreign

But that, the feeling of a held hand

I understand that.