I tried to write 1,068 words about anger and it was exhausting (534 words about anger)

Larenz Brown
3 min readJun 1, 2021

Frustrated. Falling out of a head. Bleeding out of my ears. Ahead of a fall and unable to stop it. An uptick in accidental death. Ticked off. Pissed. Piss drunk to deal. Trying to steal things that I already stole but forgot about. Dealt like cards. Annoyed. Noiseless screaming. Drowning by yourself. An ocean of misgivings. A boat with holes. Devastation followed by retribution followed by undoing followed by redemption. Distraught. Stray dog mentality. Straying away from center. Tension headaches. Hurting others first. Healing a wound. Finding relief over a high-pitched frequency. Losing belief under the table. Peeved by nothing but everything. Down for anything. It’s up whenever you want it to be. We can go outside to handle things. Broken and waiting for my bones to be set in the correct position. Red. Read. Headless. Betting on the last place horse. Terrified of going overboard. Tortured by symptoms. Lost. Loss of the plot. Livid. Ready to rumble. The chop liver you get turned into. Upset in broad daylight crying into the phone as you walk down the street. Hiding your snot from the front-facing camera. Stopped. Stooped over. Stood up. Set off. Set up. Sat down. Shut up. Defeated. Sorrow. Full of sorrow as a matter of fact. No room for anything else. Sorry. Made of brown slime. Bothered and bothersome. Brought down into a primordial ooze. Busted. Locked down. Backed up. Backtracking after you’ve found the plot again. The fifth second after falling on concrete at high speed. Rocked. Stone-cold. Cold-blooded. Blood-curdling. Boiling on the inside. Bodybagged. Over it. Overblown. Blown. In too deep. Spited. Spitting mad behind my mask getting the top of my nose wet. Tearful. On a tear. Torn through like omni man on the immortal. Bugged. Buggin. Bug chaser. Bug eraser. Bug replacer. Elevated. Escalated. Seething. Toothy. Ready to go. Engaged in a duel. Armed. On guard. Fenced in. Trapped in a calcium deposit. Receiving the wrong donor organ. Rejected. Sworn. Damned. Damn! Agitated. Ambushed. Ambulatory care. Bamboozled. Biting cheek instead of bazooka bubblegum. Burning. Crossed. Shot at. Bowed. Floored. Jawed. Salty. Spicy garlic smelling motherfucker. Zesty. Gone. Or something like that. Wound up. Watched handily. Found out. Floundering. Spiraling. Erratic. Backhanded. Fronted. Hard-headed. Thin-skinned. Thick-skulled. Rushed. Combative. Bat-shit. Stir-crazy. Fired up. Full send. O.C. Odee. Over the edge. Out of sort. Unsorted. Sort of annoyed. Undressed. Unaddressed. Extra. Thorny. Glowing (hot.) Piping (hot). Rotten. Festering. Sore. Sour. Sick. Fighting. Lighting a molotov. Lightning quick. Biting. Chirping. Called out. Caught out. Caught up. Lacking. Clipped wings. Flown coops. Flying coupes. Bottled. Cursed. Doomed. Slammed. Prepped. Propped. Accelerated. Poked. Prodded. In the way. Blocked. Guilty. Innocent in the way victims of fate are. Coded. Loaded. Baked. Popped. Strung along. Hung up. Blitzed. Caned. Swallowed. Buttered. Battered. Pancaked. Slain. Laid down. Afraid. Eyed. Unseen. Overlooked. Overcooked. Backstabbed? Stand back! Stuck. Stagnant. Subjected. Drugged. Dug in. Slugfight. Dogfight. Catty. Deprived. Depraved. Staring. Survival. Kill what you hunt. Thou shall not throw. Stoned to death. Glass-housed. Ass out. Cowardly. Lying. Misheard. People dying. Misunderstood. Too fast. Unintentional. Fully intentional. Limited. Lashed. Tongue in cheek.

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