Home Remedy for Rage
Find a glass bottle
of a size equal to the offender’s integrity,
and stuff the offender inside,
jam the neck with cotton,
seal the lid,
put the bottle in a box and tape it shut,
chuck the box in a dumpster,
and mark your days in steps
to the sum of one thousand miles,
so when his truck eventually returns to your driveway
and he slides out of its seat,
another rubber-banded bouquet behind his back and
lies still writhing behind his teeth,
you won’t have to bother to find a bottle or a dumpster.
You’re already a thousand miles away.
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Wowza! Terrific energy in this poem.
Niiiiiice. Love “slides out of its seat” and “another rubber-banded bouquet”. I feel like sleeze of it and the yo-yo of feelings.
* I feel THE sleeze of it (and like it!)
rubber-banded bouquet tells me ALL I NEED TO KNOW. Love this.
Oh, I love this, the power of anger and the importance of finding healthy ways to deal with it. The idea of physically containing the offender in a bottle is a striking image!
Oh my gosh, I love it. The only problem…I don’t know if they make bottles small enough! ha. Great poem. Thanks for sharing!
Ohhh yesssss. I know this man and his snakelike patterns all too well. I am obsessed with your delivery here. Feeling the rage that finally brings her here. No longer there.
The world needs more angry poems
Such rich and powerful advice as well as poetry
This is great – so alive with verbs that it’s not hard to believe they are a thousand miles away.