SandScript 2023 [Digital Exclusive]

Set in Stone
Ash Hooke
Medusa's rap name
Is Low Key
Big PTSD.
Freezing my
Tragedy,
Looming inside me,
While I wait
For the flash-
-Back
Guerrilla tactic
That rewinds my
Trauma-film,
Forcing brain and body
Into
Eternal re-living.
Long live the
Trauma-Queen!
Or instead,
Off with her
Head.
An internal
Silent scream
Trying to rage
It's way away
From this body and
Otherwise trapping
Everything.
This immortal agony
Hissing into my
Countenance
Over and over,
Making a mindless
Medusa
Of me;
Pain's gangster,
Full of electric stone and
Writhing on forever.
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