embodied text

today
there was a note
that a girl who works with me wrote
i don't really know her
but
it was a cute little note
and
she had cute little writing
and
being the way i am, i had to read it aloud

then
this guy
the one from the facebook thing before
he says to me:

i will only respond to you for the rest of the day
if you talk like that

my first thought:
shit
how did i just talk
i couldn't have done it cold
i had to go and look at the note
and then i could do it

it was not necessarily how she talks
i wasn't trying to imitate her
it was how her writing looked, embodied

i act things out
i don't mean to
i just do it, semi-unaware

i guess
not everybody does that, huh
but, really
how can you not