Effortless Reading

My most successful technique,
For overcoming reading OCD,

Is to get my mind into a state,
Of performing ‘effortless reading’;

‘Effortless reading’,
Is what I would do,
Whenever the plot thickened,
And some storyline crescendoed,

—So desperate,
To know what was about to happen,
My eyes would run ahead,
Faster than my mind could keep up;

—Or so it would seem,
But, in fact,
I was reading at my absolute maximum speed;

That kind of reading can be exhilarating,
—You can take in information,
And process it,
At a ridiculous rate;

And so I do find,
If I simply run my eyes over the words,
(And I’m already in a state,
Where I have some ability to resist OCD),
I can, in fact,
Understand it all;

This ‘accidental’, ‘effortless’ reading,
Feels like the same mechanism,
By which I notice everything moving,
Effortlessly and inevitably,
And in high-definition,

—I’ve just got to make the words go by fast!
I won’t help but absorb them;

I can harness this skill,
To fight reading OCD,
And it’s a very high intensity,
But I’ve just got to take very regular breaks!

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