talk is the answer of the passage
At the end of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, the protagonist Oedipus has gouged out his own eyes and is sent into exile. His wife (and -- spoiler alert -- his mother) is dead, having hung herself.
B. she tried to drink the poison from his lips bit didn't work. she then stands herself with the dagger
Its a simile, basically hes suggesting by holding onto anger, you’re just waiting until you act on it by taking it out on someone
