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Anger is imagined as a beat-down mule in a canyon, storing force while there is no medical attention.

The corrected transcript clarifies the image: anger is not just violent, it is injured and neglected. Its danger lies in being left without care until the only remaining motion is to kick.

Six lines that defend rage as serviceable: 'The anger is good'. The simile makes it both injured and dangerous - 'Like a beat down mule / in a canyon / Waiting to kick' - a worn-out animal whose last capacity is to lash out. The qualifying close, 'When there is no / medical attention', reframes the violence as what remains when care is absent: anger as the body's only available treatment for its own neglect.