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A Desperate Need for Silence

🎧📻👂 “Make it stop!”

By Grz ColmPublished 2 years ago 1 min read
This isn’t what I asked AI for 🫤 - trust me, the first go was far worse..

Shut the f-ront door - so much freakin’ noise I tell ya!

I’ll lose it (I WILL!) if that hideous baby doesn’t stop wahhhhing!

Little birds chirping when I want a nap. Eye twitch!

Elevated stress hormones make me wanna flip-out-psycho-mode,

Nothing to worry about now - just the neighbours’ blaring screamo music! Thanks!

Can’t they turn it the flip down?! I’d like to take their volume control -

Evaluate now, how much longer you can take? I’m giving it 5 minutes; no, 5 seconds: I’m done! - time to disassociate! Uh, sigh. That is some good derealisation..

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I think I need a lie down after that. Got a bit riled up. Not my experience as such and obviously very exaggerated, yet in later life I’m honestly not big on loud repetitive noises and I tend to startle easily. Ha! Anyway just a bit of a light-hearted entry.

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Film and TV reviews, 🎞 as well as short stories and free verse poems.

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