Our fury is animalistic. Can a poem resemble animality? Can a poem be resonant with it? Fury is a revolutionary habit. I have faith in the emancipatory power of rage and little else. In my fury, I’m differently gendered. I want to be a bad girl. I want to be a bad girl so there’s a musicality to my rebellion. To be a bad girl is to be one of the most furious things in the modern world. To be a bad girl is to be one of the most admonished things in the modern world. A bad girl is she who has rid herself of the brutalities of socialization. No one will look at me adoringly and because of this I
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