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surrounded by. surroundsound. all around, stuff. the chair, the animal, the bird. things. stuff things. stuffed things. things n' stuff. force fed. a foot nailed to the floor, let's fatten this up. stuff it. stuff and fluff, the ingredients for clouds, dreams, conversations. thing. ring. around, form a circle. stuff it with a square. don't let them know how you really feel. don't know how you really feel. stuff it. stuff the bitter, the anger, the losing it mama. stuff your mouth full so you will just shut up. so you will not say it. so you won't scream it. so you won't tell it. bite your tongue. don't tell. keep it secret, stuff it till it bursts you open, apart. shove it down. keep a secret about stuff, keep cannon fodder, the anger of your love, pushing down on your vocal cords down into your gut where you will feel it, not heed it, feed it and not heal it. know it. in your gut, where it rolls around. where it pushes out with its elbow. where it grows and grows until it pops you open. all the stuff of mad woman in the attic, mad woman in the kitchen, mad woman picking the kids up at school, mad woman having half a conversation, an incompletel sentence, a life sentence, a little levity here, a few things but nothing to stuff or shove down the throat. just a cheese sandwich and an opinion, thanks. just a small childhood and a small childhood dream deferred with the dishes, please. just a dream, just stuff is all