Daily Prompt: What do you find more unbearable? Watching a video of yourself or hearing a recording of your voice?
The lie I tell myself:
“Darling,” (that’s my pet name for me),
“Your disembodied voice
Grates. (That’s as polite as I can be.)
“But darling in your favor,
A natural grace and sweet disposition
Compensate for failings
In your whiny intonational exposition.”
“So, what you’re saying,”
I nod to myself, no nicknames embedded,
“Is that the camera loves me
And video is where I should be headed.”
“Darling, no,” I laugh,
“You’re not camera ready, either!
Avoid both at all costs,
And forget we had this conversation.”
Praying for Eyebrowz 