Tuesday, May 1, 2007

toxic

vitriolic whispers

from behind closed doors,

from the vents in the concrete walls.

acid reflux feeling in the sternum

when you wander through their jet streams.

can't find a corner free of the noxious gas

expelled from bloated bellies,

tainted tongues, bruised from blathering

nonsense

filtered by some into soggy strains of truth

tempers, like prairie fires, flare suddenly

in a charged yet eerily quiet kind of way.

too much for me, poor pisces.

want the cool water

in a silver bucket, thrown

on our backs.

cat like consequences

befitting our feline den.

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