Please do not use that voice,
Oh come now, you know the one!
The one that you adopt when reading aloud your own work,
With it's measured tread, it's significant pauses,
And the slight, upward, questioning lilt that you think makes you seem so self deprecating, (it does not, it merely grates, annoys and prevents me from hearing what you want to say)
If you wrote it with passion, show it!
If you wrote it in sadness, then speak it, but not too much,
Just read it to me, but please, do not use that voice.
France imposing a fine for no-shows at GP surgeries.