[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)
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS)