At our union meetings, as well as in our monthly UAW magazine, Solidarity, we always talk about how us union folk are united. How we are as one, with a common goal, fighting for a common cause. We talk of being a brotherhood. We speak of our fellow union members as being brothers and sisters. And this is something that I wish we also did within the stuttering community. I truly feel that we, as PWS, are indeed a brotherhood. We all have a common bond, something special that connects us. And quite honestly, the feeling of camaraderie that I experienced with my stuttering brothers and sisters at the Chicago convention was stronger than any I have ever felt with my union brethren. Perhaps because our stuttering bond is more emotional, forged deeply into our very beings, whereas with my fellow union workers, it is a ideological bond, based on our beliefs and a common goal. The brotherhood that exists among PWS is what I tried to explore in this poem.

This poem deals with the mutual feelings that PWS share, more so than it does with the act of stuttering itself. In fact, I didn't notice until I was finished with it, but I didn't mention the word stuttering once. First time I've ever done that. Anyway, here it is.Hope you like it."