Rotting Teeth, Rotting Lips

They say there's something in the water.

They always say that.

Cynics. I know, right?

Maybe I am one too.

Who knows?

I think it's highly probable.

There is this thing,

where people hide behind screens to mask their duping delight.

Where they mask their unchecked, unhealed trauma and turn to users without faces so they might... Appease their inner anger? Their disgust and balk and chase at people with their fingers.

And so they seek to be on the upper end of things.

"You're wrong."

"I don't know where you heard that from."

"Then you're poor educated..."

And so on and so forth, but there is no tact behind such words.

Blatant and in your face? Yes.

But what purpose does it serve?

People like to degrade and demean others all the time.

They all do it at one point or another.

Nice words, slivered with poison.

Poison drenched in black.

What's the point if the opinion isn't yours?

Why not just go on the attack?

And then people take breaks.

I take breaks.

Because honestly, who wants to be around that shit?

I certainly fucking don't.

And I seclude myself from the vitriol.

Because honestly, who likes drinking laced coffee?

If I wanted to poison myself, I'd do so willingly.

And I think.

I'm fucking done giving my opinion.

People just love taking the piss.

Taking the ever loving piss out of things.

Nothing better to do.

And I go on.

I slip away.

Shut down and turn away.

Fucking done with it.

It's the platform.

It's the medium.

No, it's the fucking people.

The people choose to be this way.

They choose to make the forum that way.

They choose it and no Community Standard is going to fix that.

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Author Notes: Not my favorite, but a lot of people seemed to like it. Interesting how some of my more wretched feelings that I post about seem to garner more attention. Maybe it's more relatable, or maybe there's something in the air that makes us all on the same frequency to where it seems we all are either in process or in the end of process of feeling rather annoyed and defeated. I'm not really sure, all I know is that there's a high probability the reason this one was liked, which I absolutely wish I retitled, vibed with more people. Anyway, enjoy. -D.F.