{"id":296,"date":"2022-04-07T23:48:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T23:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-2\/?page_id=296"},"modified":"2022-04-29T09:20:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T09:20:14","slug":"not-that-sugar-sweet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/poetry\/not-that-sugar-sweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Not That Sugar Sweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Sarah Edmonds<\/h5>\n<p>It started with a sweet tooth<\/p>\n<p>And my words<\/p>\n<p>Dripping honey smooth<\/p>\n<p>From my mouth to the page<\/p>\n<p>Dreamy worlds and fairytale endings<\/p>\n<p>I thought you were the answer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was on a sugar high<\/p>\n<p>Until I crashed<\/p>\n<p>Your words no longer igniting a warmth in my chest<\/p>\n<p>But grinding bone on bone until I need to lie down<\/p>\n<p>You called me sweetheart today<\/p>\n<p>Before chewing me up and spitting me out<\/p>\n<p>Like a stale piece of gum that lost its flavor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is the best life gets<\/p>\n<p>I tell myself in the dark<\/p>\n<p>Five hours into a sleepless night<\/p>\n<p>Begging for a moments respite<\/p>\n<p>From the sweet nothings<\/p>\n<p>You whispered in my ear all day<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I write about it<\/p>\n<p>I put emphasis on the \u201cnothing\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Your words give me toothaches<\/p>\n<p>Not because they\u2019re sweet<\/p>\n<p>But because I\u2019m grinding my teeth<\/p>\n<p>Against your insincerity<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think to myself<\/p>\n<p>Just because it looks like sugar<\/p>\n<p>Doesn\u2019t mean it isn\u2019t salt<\/p>\n<p>I am bitterness and pain<\/p>\n<p>Wet anger and a dry sense of humor<\/p>\n<p>There is no sugar here<\/p>\n<p>Only vitriol and acidic rage<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You call me sweetheart and it ignites a fire in my chest<\/p>\n<p>Gnashing teeth gnashing bone<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all the same in the end<\/p>\n<p>I bite my tongue and turn the other cheek<\/p>\n<p>But I am not that sugar sweet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Edmonds It started with a sweet tooth And my words Dripping honey smooth From my mouth to the page Dreamy worlds and fairytale endings I thought you were the answer &nbsp; I was on a sugar high Until I crashed Your words no longer igniting a warmth in my chest But grinding bone on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-296","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296\/revisions\/785"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}