{"id":193,"date":"2020-11-18T01:03:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-1\/?page_id=193"},"modified":"2020-11-18T02:49:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T02:49:05","slug":"the-taste-of-your-name","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/the-taste-of-your-name\/","title":{"rendered":"The Taste of Your Name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I remember when your name tasted foreign in my mouth<br>When it was sweet and unscathing<br>And in a flavor that made my taste buds scream<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were even times I would dream that I forgot it<br>For the sake of re-tasting your sweet ass toxin of a name<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And all the while, you never felt the same about mine.<br>It was dull<br>Disappointing and a waste of valuable time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet there were moments your mouth watered<br>And filled with a craving for a little spice<br>And with a roll of a dice you\u2019d decide if you loved me&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You\u2019d pick and choose which day you\u2019d enjoy the flavor of my name<br>Like our give, our take, our love was just a fucking game<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In those moments you paused,<br>Wondering if you should spit it out because it was too much,<br>Or keep it on your tongue, not for the taste, but for the touch,<br>In an attempt to decide if you liked the spice enough<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I, unlike you, was filled with too much shame to know that my name was just as sweet,<br>And instead I stuffed my mouth with yours until my tongue blistered<br>And my stomach hurt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I spat your name back at you,<br>Not because I didn\u2019t want it,<br>But because the sweet burned the blisters and my tongue couldn\u2019t take it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So for a long time we bathed in the aftertaste of each other\u2019s names<br>We enjoyed it\u2019s thickness, the fact that it was viscous gave us comfort we didn\u2019t know we needed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And when you\u2019d wiped yourself clean,<br>And left me in the shit we both made a mess with,<br>All I wanted was to taste again your toxin,<br>To say again your name<br>Even if it killed me<br>But let\u2019s face it<br>I needed you, but you never really needed me,<br>And spice is an acquired taste, but it never really needed to be sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nI remember when your name tasted foreign in my mouthWhen it was sweet and unscathingAnd in a flavor that made my taste buds scream There were even times I would dream that I forgot itFor the sake of re-tasting your&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/the-taste-of-your-name\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The Taste of Your Name&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/no-intro.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-193","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/193\/revisions\/339"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}