Voice (external) is a vehicle for voice (internal). For the latter, to have a voice suggests something you have, suggests a something that is yours. You have a voice inside of you and you may voice it however which way you want. If only it were that simple. Do you always have voice? Is it yours to have? Once something leaves your lips, something called voice, it leaves, it hardly circles back, it’s not yours to have. “Taking your voice back in after it has left your body is a lot like drinking your own saliva from a glass,” writes Nuar Alsadir in Animal Joy. In the case of saliva, which is produced, not reproduced, by the salivary glands, it doesn’t come back, it is continuously produced and is absolutely essential for speaking. In the case of voice, unless another’s something synthesizes with something that was once your own, it is also continuous. It may return after contamination with another’s voice different, unfamiliar. It’s grown an inch. You like it, you don’t like it. You’d rather your voice stayed home where it’s dialogue with other melodic voices stays in within a ruminating echo chamber asking of it how it could have voiced differently were your ingredients sterling.