Content warning:Show warnings This page contains: AbleismBloodBody transformationChild abuseDysphoriaMental health issuesScars/scarificationSelf-harming behaviorsShamingViolence/combata recurring double sestinaThis / young man has bombs for / hands—shiny, cartoonish, alwayslit. / After hisinfamous Christmas speech incident,even his family’s curtain / of uneasinessfinally parted, burying himunder years of resentment. Regardless of themoment’s importance, or / his shaking faith in himself, orthe smallest self-mercy he might allow,he fears his explosions will alwaysprevail. He knows these thoughts of hisaren’t healthy, yet a part of himstill wishes scars remained as proof of his ordeal. Even the localmuseum of unusual andexotic explosives turned him away, hoping he’d understand—his passion would be missed, sobbed the curator.