#rage&its

[Rage is a quiet thing

You think that you've tamed it

But it's just lying in wait

Oh, rage

Is it in my veins?

Feel it in my face when

When I least expect it]

The meat tenderiser is broken

-necked so, I must soften

the beef with my father’s

hands, marrow-thick

with knowledge

the meat must be beaten

brutal into tenderness.

That anybody softens

with violence.

Another morning and I wake with thirst for the goodness I do not have.

Rage & it’s violence.

— portrait taken from @rawrrkiyomi (1) Mad Honey Symposium, Sally Wen Mao. (2) Anais Nin. (3) Venetian Smile by Richard Burlet (4) Simmer from Petals for Armour by Hayley Williams. (5) Cover art for the florence + the machine/ethel cain collab Morning Elvis by Peegpin. (6) Wound from the mouth of a wound, Torrin A. Greathouse. Thirst, Mary Oliver. (7) Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1952 (8)