The desire to perform impedes conversation.
I can neither return your love nor dismiss it.
Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.
The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.
Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?
Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.