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# Warning
**by Julie Hoffman**

What happens to a voice unheard?

Does it get lodged
Like popcorn kernels behind a tonsil?
Or deflate like a tire—
And then collapse?
Does it smell like singed hair?
Or bubble and fizz 
Like a chemical reaction?

Maybe it just whispers 
Like a secret in one’s ears.


Or does it scream?
