This poem was originally published in 2006 here and is written by me. I was playing with my thesaurus at the time, finding words for anger. I was listening to Rilo Kiley and myspacing hard. I spent countless nights teaching myself HTML, formatting websites, writing content. I love being able to go back in time and see what I was up to and what I was writing. I realize things about myself that I forgot. ________________________________
ABC’s of Anger
You could say I am annoyed, antagonized & aggravated.
You remind me of that bitter taste of coffee in my mouth,
With you I am displeased.
Almost enraged I am, exacerbated & exasperated,
I find myself furious, fierce, & ferociously fuming.
Hardly hateful just heated with a hot head
I am ill tempered. You make me impassionate, insensitive,
I feel inflamed, increasingly infuriated, & irate. Intensely irritated.
I am maddened. Your words make me offended & outraged.
You provoke me into a raging, resentful sad Satan.
Watch for spitefulness coming your way.
I am airline turbulence, making passengers uptight.
Vicious & vexed like a bad villain.
I am wired & worked up with wrath.
I have no zest or zeal.
This is a zero-sum game.
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%$%$#FU*C*&%#$K off.
I remember the first time I heard this song – on a Grey's Anatomy soundtrack my friend was playing in her car. I proceeded to listen to it near-nonstop for weeks. Thanks for reminding me of it!
PS “Aggravated” is one of my favorite adjectives.
That's where I heard it too! Greys!
Rilo Kiley are so good. I heart Jenny Lewis.
Jeez. I went back and read some of my own poetry from that long ago, and it took a full bottle of scotch to wash the taste of shame from my mouth.