traumatic misnomer by Theo Davidson (Massachusetts)*

[content warning: imagery of guns]

why call it a trigger
like i contain explosions

maybe a veteran would
but i’m only a student

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there are no bloodstains
or little circular holes

no one screams or wails
nor is there stunned silence

my brain is not a gun
and he cannot hold it

but if you must make a metaphor
better to call it a bullet

a trigger is just a button
a bullet rips through insides

the way he did to me
the way he does to me