vitriol

lately all I've been spewing is venom and vitriol

sour and biting, covering my tongue so all my words are just as acrid

bitter speech in the crevices of my teeth, curling around stained molars

lips dry and cracked, each movement stretching my skin with cyanide-crusted wrinkles

a deep taste of spoiled vinegar, pungent and angry, bleeds into my voice.

I wonder if anyone else can sense the stale, static air..

I am sure they do, for it is all I have been breathing.

condensing thousands of little annoyances and giant problems into my saliva

releasing it with the carbon dioxide I exhale.

I feel like I am toxic, a neon stay-away sign over my head in huge letters.

can I wave away the smell, wash away this taste, run away from my problems?

or am I doomed to poison everyone and myself?