My nickname?
Lockjaw.
It hurts. I can?t help it; it?s just the way I talk.
It?s an old scar, picked fresh daily by the illiterate without much imagination.
Now the intelligent use the correct term for my condition as a slur. The Dentiloquist; a person who speaks with clenched teeth.
My enemies won?t attack me on a defensible issue; rather they jab at something I have no control over.
My boyfriend, Josh, calls me the Ventriloquist. He?s teasing, saying I put words into the First Lady?s mouth. Now that?s very clever, but not true.
Lockjaw.
I?m human, it still hurts.
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