SMASH!
Paul Rousseau
I was blasted with
gamma rays once in the form
of a bullet, by freak
accident, it hit my head and now
there’s a little green monster inside
who’s always angry, did you know
steam is just a hot liquid
trying its best to heat the rest
of the room, for survival’s sake
it wears itself out, textbook
futility, my Hulk, like steam
just wants everyone to know
what’s going on with
his puny brain
Paul Rousseau is a disabled writer from Minnesota. His work has appeared in or is coming soon from Roxane Gay’s The Audacity, Catapult, X-R-A-Y, Okay Donkey, Wigleaf, Rejection Letters, Daily Drunk, JMWW, Hippocampus, Waxwing, Bending Genres, and Jellyfish Review. You can Follow him on Twitter @Paulwrites7.


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