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"Reading Therapy"

by Antoine

Reading is a task for me

Don't get me wrong, I love it

I love reading, I really do

I love to read but it's a task for me

It's really sad, you see

I love to read but reading is a task

It's like there's someone, I mean

I love to read but there's someone

Inside me who doesn't

Love it so much and he's doing everything he can

To keep me from reading

Someone inside me who hates to read

Hates to read and he does all he can to distract me

He wants to distract me

From, um

I mean

Distract me from the reading

The reading, the task at hand

The task at hand is reading

But this little birdie, you see

All he wants to do

All he ever wants to do is write

Writing is all he ever wants to do

He doesn't like to read, you see

So here's how it goes

I'll get my book and I'll open it

I'll open my book, you see

And find my page and I'll start to go over the words

I go over the words, you see, with my eyes

And sometimes they make sense

But sometimes they don't make sense and they just

They just sort of, um

They just sort of don't

Process and so

I'm trying to read but the words

The words just keep repeating

I'm trying to read but the words keep repeating

The words, they just keep repeating because

My eyes don't deliver the message to my mind

And I have to go back and try to send it again

The message in these words, you see

I have to read it over

And over sometimes

And sometimes it's worse

Sometimes I just forget what I'm doing

Forget that I'm reading and just start thinking

I'll think about something that fascinates me

Something I read that fascinates me

And I'll stare off and think about it

I'll think about it and forget that I'm reading

Forget what I'm doing

I'm trying to read

I just sort of, um

Zone out, you see

It's the focus that bothers me

Troubles me most, I think

Yes, I think it's the focus

The trouble is the focus

It's just

I can't focus

I can't seem to, um

It's just something like

Um

My eyes ... and the words ...

On the page ... and I try but ...

Hold on

...

Um yeah

So

Where did I go wrong ?