" Then something happened in that space her silence made: my speech started to break down, fragmenting under the emotional pressure, became a litany of non-sequiturs, like how some of the poets you admire sound to me, or I guess what Palin or Trump sound like, delivering nonsense as if it made sense, were argument or information, although I was speaking much faster than politicians speak; my speech was accelerating as if I were chasing after meaning as it receded; it was like I was having a stroke. "

― Ben Lerner , The Topeka School