misdirected anger.

not pithy or even artistic, just a purge...

today i stomped on a fallen branch

just to hear it snap

the satisfying crunchcrack 

against the arch of my foot

appeasing my inner blood lust

temporarily

you don't know me

you predatory foulness

but i know you

and i'm watching

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[Creepy Swine Guy]

Stephen King claims that we all have a "carnivorous instinct" that calls on us to release our true nature. Our true natures include those instincts for survival including "our blood lust." His reasoning is that we all have the "subterranean river running beneath our minds". It is that which keeps control of those instincts in us but the "alligators," the tendencies, want to be released, like carnivorous animals. They want us to act on our carnivorous instincts. Since we all have these tendencies there has to be a way to pacify them to keep them from coming out. So he reasons that as long as these "alligators" are fed then there would be no harm done to anyone. He proposes that seeing horror movies is a way that we "feed the alligators".

Reading this poem brought to mind that bit of information.

[Crowley]

Don't want to be on the business end of you....that is for sure. Really tense and direct write. Gives me the chills.