Electroencephalography of the Soul

   A girl

goes to the hospital

for a brain test

because the doctors

might want to change the pills

she takes for seizures.

They stick wires

all over her head

with what feels like

   bubblegum

and she wonders how she’ll ever

get all that gum out of her hair.

She doesn’t know

what they are measuring

   as their machines

start their scribbling,

but she hopes to hell it’s true

that they can’t

   actually read her mind

because she can’t stop

her thoughts from racing

      with monstrous imaginings.

Penned for Write on Edge: Bubblegum