My ear has been stuck by lightning!, Melina Kritikopoulos

My ear has been struck by lighting!

By Melina Kritikopoulos

My ear has been struck by lighting! You may not think this to be true. But in my mind the ringing rattles, In circles how it flew.

My ear has been struck by lighting! I don’t know what to do. So I sit myself in grass ever-inviting, But that will fade to blue too.

My ear has been struck by lighting! Could it be Zeus’s valid coup? For fear of losing what I’ve known, I tighten up my screws.

But his lighting there prevails And rusts me ‘till I’m blue.

Is it all for me, this lighting? For the fact that I’m a jew? Or an LGBTQ? Why me and not you?

“My ear has been struck by lighting!” The only thing I really knew. It rattled around in my skull Until their games were finally through.