The New Anger
The old anger was the blunt and undirected and the raw,
The old anger was the reaction without the careful law
Of the understanding of the trigger
and the source and the address,
The new anger, and the new is nothing less.
The new anger is the graduate of everything I’ve been through,
The new anger is the product of the long and the review
That I’ve been conducting on the old and what it cost,
The new anger, and I’m grateful for the lost.