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Furious

 I don't want to lose my job,  but if he mouths off again, I'll kill  him in my mind, if nowhere  else. I know that clutch  of gut, that screaming in my head  is childish rage, but here I sit: Furious.  Rough, red, bilious, describes Furious  waiting to attack voraciously. It's a job  to control her with just your head.  Raging inside is a tiger's urge to kill  and only a desperate choking clutch  sends the beast to nowhere.   The blankness of being nowhere  makes a kitten of Furious,  but there is no hope to clutch  at. Depression rules the job   and the urge to kill   myself sweeps over me, invades my head.  It's hard to live in your head.  as emotions give life depth. Nowhere  and no-when is it right to kill,  but I feel like it when I'm Furious.  I'm glad I have this curious job.  It gives me a life raft on which to clutch.  I wish that I could throw in the clutch  of my car, take off, just head  out to see America, My job  will wait. Take me somewhere, anywhere, nowhere  special. It doesn't pay to be Furious.  I don't really want to kill.    Do you know what it's like to kill  another human being? I do. The guilt will clutch   and tear your mind, I have to get Furious.  out of my crazed head  before I am no one and nowhere  and out of a job.  Job one then, is not to kill.   Nowhere is it acceptable. I’ll clutch  my head and my tongue, get over Furious.

Copyright © August 2003 Irene E Fraley

Additional Notes:
Sometimes it is absolutely essential to write something down rather than act it out. This was one of those times when poetry saved me. You see, there was this Super BORDERLINE patient...


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