on the occasion of doing something that hurts because it might hurt them too

oh delicious bitter spite
goes down so sweetly
a smooth swallow
twisting in my stomach
with bitter satisfaction

if i have to bleed to make you bleed
the blood is all the sweeter

vindication is sweet, but
as empty as pure sugar, and twice as sour

small and vicious and grasping
(this is me at my most honest)