Undoing Medusa

Thomas Ballhausen (texto)
Elena Peytchinska (desenho)

having tea with these weird sisters
I dare not look at them
(do you)
their strange voices
not as luring as you-know-who
but this is a different story
a line of inquiry for some other time
especially
since I really suck at karaoke
                            two sugars please
I am bad at small talk too
just let the two of them do the chatting
flipping through their family album
almost prying
                             have a look, dear
representations should be fine, something like
steam-cleaned memories of
mum and dad and
of grandma, skin like earth
                             what do we have here, dear
siblings are a different topic
(of course)
                             have another cup, dear, do you like it
what a tragedy
good looks and careless gods
                             dash of milk, maybe
good looks and
                             piece of cake, dear
she is still making headlines
with Perseus on the run
hiding in fog and rain
but all they wanna do
is pin a medal on him
                             gods and heroes need victims, dear
sure, we all learned that years ago
this is the age of engines and reason
(a sad time
when we try to tame myths with grammar)
someone somewhere is starving
so, I unbutton my shirt and close my eyes
how very-20^th-century of me