song 134 : Nagging Question (outtake) (Tacoma Ballet)

This is another of my several portraits of post traumatic stress and hyper vigilance. The band cooks up a good groove. I open with an imitation of the insecurity and politics of scenes. Then the nagging question: do you feel safe? Post traumatic stress shows itself stuck in repetition. You lose all sense of time and reason in those seconds when the fear rekindles.

But then does anyone really feel like “it’s okay to be here?” Aristotle said that souls in bodies experience a horror best compared to the Etruscan pirate torture of tying a prisoner face to face with a corpse. Our prison is so beautiful sometimes you can forget even while remembering.

But with PST you seldom remember while forgetting, you get stuck on repeat, almost like ritualized re-enactment of what happened to you, that nags your life, can even ruin it, until you find your way to heal.
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