What’s Your Favorite Scary Movie?

Psycho
Sleepaway Cam-
Silence of the L-

Always the slasher
and never the final girl.

Notes from
the severed
studio heads:

If she does survive,
she needs to be
legless or blind,
eyes gouged out
or wheelchair bound.

No trans heroes
can be whole.

Is this a Nightmare on Elm St. 2 thing?
Are audiences ready for-
Who is even asking for-
Kids could watch this-

X-Rated Sequel
to The Homecoming
Texas Chainsaw
Drag Scream King

And once you transition

Forget it
Forget him
Forget me

But, but, but
you make me remember
like Freddie-
no, like Bette Davis,
The Wicked Witch,
Pamela Vorhees,
Angela from Sleepaway Camp 2

You’re the ones
who made me hide,
who taught me how
to scare you
-just a little scare,
a tickle in the throat,
another body in the moat.

A rumor bound
to strike again,
after 25 years
on the very day,
at the very site of the slaughter,
no room for anything
camp not summer and-

Is it wrong to want to
hurt them
the way they hurt us
on the silver screen?

Scream, Cissy, Scream!

And as the blood runs
from their faces,
from their tender places,
the macabre, grim, untidy
notion arises
that we do
in fact
exist.