bunches of us live

inside us “Mom?” rings “What!” snarled

we cant switch that fast

Just ask the artist in total brush painting focus when suddenly, “Mom?” rings out. In return the focused one with the brush snarls, “What!!”

The artist’s consciousness instantly switched sides of her brain. It’s painful in an odd way and it’s startling. I always apologized and reexplained the bit about the brain every time. Then sometime in their teens each of my children said,”Aaah, I understand.”  johnmauerman@gmail.com

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