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Misunderstood

I seem to hear everything

like words misspoken –

read everything

like words misspelled.

Misunderstandings grow

from this interpretational error,

as I respond to what I heard,

instead of what you said.

Confusion surrounds me like a dark cloud –

an unrelenting bad mood

that can neither be

explained, nor understood.

“Don’t worry”, you say, “I’m patient”.

“Maybe you’ll change”, I hear.

13 November 2001

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