Myra Schneider
Release
I’m going to slap my anger onto a wet slab,
put it through a mangle,
hang out its long line of eccentric washing.
I’m going to fly its flags
from my windows, smack it into surprised faces,
push it up noses,
smash green bottles of it to smithereens
on pavements, daub its shout
over walls, hurl it down a football field,
kick it into goal,
empty it into a dustcart’s masticating jaws.
I’ll parade my anger through
town centres, exhibit it in galleries, make
such a production of it
on stages that audiences will be pinned
to shocked silence. I’m going
to drive it up the motorway in a topless car,
scatter its pungent seeds
on ploughed fields, wait for the dark fruits
to ripen. Then I’ll celebrate
by scribbling indelible berry juice across
the clean page of the sky.
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