Pome: The Anger Of People

Is an unspoken thing

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Santa Monica is a long way. Pic: Paradisio Publishing

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The Anger Of People

the birds are in the skies

and kidhood is a thing

filled with strangers in the home

and an anger primeval

ancient as the yellowtipped butterfly of the plains of China (pieridae, genus: tianschanica)

the bones of bones of the bones in the graveyard

and the anger of people is the anger of being born, growing up still the kid trapped as an adult, swindled into a life you never got told about;

the anger of people

is a potent thing

is nursed

cared for

is the most beautiful creation of some

the sole one for many

this anger is all about what they do not have

and being angry at those who do

so like a honeybuttered sun ranging low on a Santa Monica beach bar, raise