You're awake at twenty to four and you've never mentioned it
Not just you.
You've got about nine of those. Every morning Not Just You takes one of them and says it out loud.
The friend who says it first
Kitchen table, second cup of coffee.
Almost nothing a body does is rare.
The problem is never you
A muscle that stretched
A hormone that moved
A habit that had a reason
A rule somebody wrote down badly
The words go missing now, so there's a notebook, face down.
A letter about a scan has been on the fridge since March.
Cash taken out so it doesn't show.
The supplement never mentioned.
Nobody's heard any of these out loud
Every morning one of them gets said plainly, along with how many people it happens to.
The relief is in the count
In a 2018 survey of thousands of American adults, most said they'd held something back from their doctor.
That's the ordinary private life of an ordinary adult.
One thing you can use, every single edition
It sits where a reader who scrolls past every paragraph still lands on it.
One thing to do about it today.Somebody else is up at this hour too, sitting on a thing they've never said
not just you.