Listen
Listen past the echoes of banality to what is being said.
Listen to words
Listen to sounds
Listen to presumptions
Listen to history
Listen to gestures
Listen to mistakes
Listen to players
Listen to bodies
Listen to sight
Listen to easy
Listen to hard
Listen to fake
Listen to subtle
Listen to clichés
Listen to stupidity
Listen to repetition
Listen to ego
Listen to self
Listen to other
Listen to ignorance
Listen to confusion
Listen to jealousy
Listen to rivals
Listen to crazy
Listen to jaded
Listen to naïve
Listen so quietly that this lives in your system as music, flowing gracefully.
Nicole Villarreal Stivers is a writer currently residing in Seattle. She spends her spare time trying to start a small absurdist revolution through quiet means: [groups.myspace.com/riotthroughconfusion]