I try to read. All the words are falling like raindrops into a puddle at the corner of the page. I shake the book back and forth like an Etch-a-Sketch hoping for clarity but it fails. Instead I am left with an inedible soup.
The letters are hungry for my attention so I sate them by collecting them on my finger tips and watch them jump back onto the page.
One of the V's gets lodged into the page junction...it looks so helpless there, I need to rally the others to help but they can't hear me. They only hear screeches.
How can I help the poor V? If I run my finger up the spine i might break it. If I spread the pages further apart, it could slide further in.
I'm gliding my index finger in circles around the center hypnotizing the letters into a chain when it suddenly passes by an catches the V, smoothly guiding it free.
I scoop the V onto my fingers and caress it with my lips, happy that's it's ok.
It then teases itself into my mouth and, moving slowly back, reaches for my throat.
I swallow and say 'Veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee'
To my astonishment, the chain of letter has undone itself before my eyes and begs to play on my smile.
My eager hands take them all in my mouth at once! And with closed eyes I swirl them around with my tongue, delighting in the noise they've helped me to make.
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