Too much coffee\u00a0<\/span> Ode to Starbucks\u00ae<\/span> On my way to class\u00a0<\/span> Headache brain-freeze caffeine withdrawal heart palpitations\u00a0<\/span> Kate Fortner Too much coffee\u00a0 Head screaming fingers tingling heart lurching stomach turning\u00a0 Iced grande toasted white chocolate mocha\u00a0 Fills my esophagus, stomach, and veins\u00a0 Piles of whipped cream fluffy milky-pale With red sprinkles\u00a0 Little crunchy rubies of sugar\u00a0 Teeth chattering mind shattering\u00a0 Liquid energy off-white like pearls\u00a0 Sugar shock ice block\u00a0 Hands and lips Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-131","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131\/revisions\/692"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span>Head screaming fingers tingling heart lurching stomach turning\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Iced grande toasted white chocolate mocha\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Fills my esophagus, stomach, and veins\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Piles of whipped cream fluffy milky-pale<\/span>
\n<\/span>With red sprinkles\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Little crunchy rubies of sugar\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Teeth chattering mind shattering\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Liquid energy off-white like pearls\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Sugar shock ice block\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Hands and lips going numb\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>In the January chill\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Green plastic straw (apologies to the planet)\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Name in messy scrawl\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Kate Cate Kat Paige Katie Kacy Casey Cathy Cait\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Mobile pick up is god-sent<\/span>
\n<\/span>Only twenty minutes between classes\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>With grande pumpkin cream cold brew\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>All things are possible\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>One essay in four hours\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Ninety-six points out of one hundred\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Saw a girl in the elevator clutching\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Large Dunkin\u2019\u00ae iced coffee\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>About half gone\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Iced coffee\u2019s definitely the move\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>I say raising\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Grande iced toasted white chocolate mocha\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>With milky-pale cream and sugar ruby sprinkles\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Got a long day girl in the elevator explains\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Got here at 9am not leaving until 8\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Oof<\/span><\/i>. Sounds like I got punched in the stomach\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Good luck\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>She leaves\u2014third floor\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Godspeed, comrade in comrade in coffee, sister in Starbucks\u00ae\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Learned a song in middle school\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>C-O-F-F-E-E Coffee is not for me! Slaves to a coffee cup! They won\u2019t give coffee up!<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span>Weird thing to teach twelve-year-olds<\/span>
\n<\/span>Didn\u2019t work anyway<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"