Investigation: Therapist’s Notes
(an erasure from Stephen King’s Carrie)
The victim of wild talent, we suspect
she was put into an extreme situation
of guilt and stress; an advent
of terrible events worn as a corsage.
Herself, a prayer;
her voice, a full-length mirror
bright with tea roses.
No one could understand
the brute courage it had taken
to leave herself open
to a creeping existence,
restless with tiredness or headache.
She kept waning, a strain
as if smiling inside
another’s body, forcing
her to run and run and run;
a terrific drain on the body’s resources.
