On Stammering

Nicholas Y.B. Wong
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Freud has warned women about men who stutter because they are likely to be disappointing in bed. But a speech therapist from the School of Schist has published a research that argues differently. There is a split, to quote the post-structuralists, in our identity, at the beach, on the peach, in our speech. So there is a shoreline, the fruit looks like bubble buttocks, we stutter.

And stuttering is a reaction of the action of partial swallowing. Not food, but words we refrain from saying. Some alphabets are left between the cleavages between teeth. An e next to the incisor, an o behind the molar and a t on the right lateral. When we speak, the leftovers get mixed with saliva and syllables about to be uttered, so words are adjoined by extra alphabets, they are longer than they should be.

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Nicholas Y.B. Wong is the author of Cities of Sameness (Desperanto, late 2011) and the winner of the Sentinel Quarterly Poetry Competition. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Assaracus, Cha, Drunken Boat, Moon Milk Review, San Pedro River Review, and many others. He serves as a poetry editor for THIS Literary Magazine and a poetry reader for Drunken Boat. Please visit http://nicholasybwong.weebly.com.