(2024) I want to learn how to metal scream

 I want to learn how to metal scream

Because my feelings are no longer contained 

Within words and stanza alone

And muted by internalised convention

By the cadence if I speak them

By your imagination conforming them

When they are filled

With the fire

Of fear and rage. 

I want to learn how to metal scream

Because I can no longer stand

The reaction to my words

To be that I’m “so articulate”

That I’m well spoken,

That you want to hang it behind glass;

To be saited applause

Pleasant murmurs

And silent shares. 

I want to learn how to metal scream

So that when I come on stage

In a dress, makeup, done hair

I can scream my emotions 

Sweat out the hair & off the makeup

And grate on your perceptions-

So you go home After 

and want to do Something so that 

I share only words & Not truth.