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What can I do but scream
Wail
brandish my fingernails like the
ancient weapons they are?

Surely anything worth doing
is worthy of pitching a fit

And surely,
the necessity of communicating this thing to you
is worth losing a little dignity
a little
public sanity

It's not even that I'm in pain
(although I most certainly am)
and of course
it was never really rage

It's that these moments
are passing so quickly
and we have no way to
commemorate them
but by a slap in the face

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