How Dare Anyone Anything Ever
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[Sometimes, though not often, an individual feels impelled to live out the worse side of his nature and to repress his better side. In such cases the shadow appears as a positive figure in his dreams. But to a person who lives out his natural emotions and feelings, the shadow may appear as a cold and negative intellectual; it then personifies poisonous judgements and negative thoughts that have been held back. So, whatever form it takes, the function of the shadow is to represent the opposite side of the ego and to embody just those qualities that one most dislikes in other people.]
I am the singularity at the centre of the black joke.
I am the long neck at the end of the short rope.
That morning was the lover's parade.
Dead faces turned to my window as they shuffled past,
every swan neck knotting to a rouged fist.
I laid low.
When the last heel had turned into London Road I lit a cigarette
and stepped out into the street.
From over the way the neighbours' houses screamed at me
over moats of bifidus digestivum and come.
The hybrid cars winked at me as I stepped closer,
breasts crushed together,
labial grilles moistened: willing, waiting.
And hell that day was asymmetrical balding;
happiness a de-scaled kettle.
Dead children in another country were to blame
for the riots at the petrol station.
Another three pence on super-unleaded.
They spared the Costa machine.
I laid down in the rotting cardboard by the recycling tub
and slid feet first up the side of the tree.
Looking up, I watched the commuters filing past – eyes buffering –
sipping foam from the vacuum-formed nipples of their mammary brands:
men with no mothers.
Mothers with no sons.
And out past the emaciated magpies lying dead at the bottom of their Rolex nests
I saw her turn into the street,
floating seven feet off the ground,
haloed by a glittering concentricity of wedding rings
and whipping umbilical cords,
and as she brought her lips to my ear
the tears broke and streamed into my fresh-dyed hairline
because she was right.
She was so right.
How dare anyone anything ever?
How dare you “how dare” me like I don't know better?
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