The Anger and the Art

The Anger and the Art

Every piece of work I’ve ever done has had the heat in it,
The background radiation of the fury in the fit
Of the phrasing and the pressure and the shaping of the thing,
The anger and the art are what I’ve been carrying.
The anger and the art are not the enemies I thought,
The anger and the art are both the things I’ve always bought
My way into the work with, one demanding and one clear,
The anger and the art, and they’ve been working here.