what i'm trying to say is i think your present discomfort may be self-induced. you simply cannot eat foreign objects. you know what i mean?

you get what i'm saying? why do you have that glazed expression? are you daydreaming again?

i know, i know. people always say it's for your own good when it's for their own good. but this really is. for your own good, i mean. 

i feel like you're really listening to me. like, i'm really getting through to you. so why do i have the sense it's going in one ear and out the other?