i like angry poetry
the kind that churns
in your gut,
with razors for teeth
and gums bleeding.
i like the violent sound
of verbs clashing
on a decaying page,
like the shot of a gun
on a quiet day.
i like the poetry that stays,
that lies in waiting
like a dog in a cage,
words that creep like
voided birds into the
wired tress of my brain,
that pay their rent
like drunken travelers
and trash the place.
i like angry poetry
the kind that sears it's
screams to my lips,
which spirit echoes and
moans for eager,
****** eyes.
words that hit like *****,
giving their reader
a killer hangover.
i like angry poetry,
the kind that leave you
with a smoky exit.

this is not a death-wish
this is a resurrection.
on nights, you grow
weary of the sound of
your own breathing,
there is a fierce sun
burning inside you,
you must use it to grow,
not to scorch all you have.
you have tender hands,
why do you use them
to peel away your
conscious?
there is a thunder in
that insipid heart of yours,
go, forage it out.

full stop, false start.
you're fooling everyone except
the one who [should] matter.

let's read shakespeare.
hand me othello's tale of woe.
watch me stop halfway through,
fiction all too real.

pause.
exhale.

i told you i was glass,
fingernails like windows
into my bloodstream,
but you cracked me anyways.

and it's like you took from me
these endless skies
and pretended the stars
had always been black.

it's like you dropped on me
the atomic ******* bomb
then pretended your fallout
was nothing but smoke.