I am the laughter of Medusa,

the one Hélène Cixous summoned to break the silence.
From my hair rise serpents that do not bite, but speak.
My gaze does not petrify:

it returns the image of the fear that invented me.
They called me a monster,

and I answered with language.
I laugh,

for at last my voice writes

upon the body they tried to silence.