The Seething

It creeps in from the outside somewhere, maybe in through the ear. Can't help it, it gets in. It starts to percolate around in the head, confounding ideas and leading to interrupted dreams. Then it slowly drips down the nasal passages into the throat, poisoning the taste of everything that passes through its creamy putrescence. Then onward into the gullet, the gut, the intestines, all the while seeping laterally into the heart, lungs, kidneys and liver. Each of these in turn becomes foul smelling. Once-healthy organs turn raw; their energetic ardor is drained in quick-fire bursts of emotion. What results is a seething, oozing, angry complaint that penetrates to the farthest reaches of the skin. The feeling accumulates into a cloudy inability to move, think, or experience positive emotion. The host body can suffer this state for days, weeks, and even months. There is no known cure, other than the refusal to be porous.