{"sf1_id":587734,"sf2_id":"rn9LG79m","title":"Taste","author":"Care A Lot","words":192,"posted_at":"2013-09-09T18:32:00.000Z","tags":["Addictions","Drugs","No-Yiff","Obsessions","Other","Poetry","monsters"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/587734-taste","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/rn9LG79m","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/20/fb/20fbfaa9-2f6e-42fc-b9b5-2d761af08787","description":"How I feel, deep within . . .","content":"Preachers, and prophets, push truth like drugs.\u0026nbsp;\n\nMy mind feels gross like slimy slugs.\n\nI'm confused, and used, so used,\n\nso, can't I sleep forever tonight?\u0026nbsp;\n\nI'm too tired tonight,\n\nand I've fucked up again.\n\nDesire over chastity,\n\nI don't think Anne of Avonlea ever had it so hard.\n\nI'd like to rip the world in two, and watch the miles-thick pavement tear my nails up unrecognizable.\n\nGod, how that would make me smile.\n\nThe moon is lost tonight, behind a veneer of apathy,\n\nand a bouffant of beauty\n\nseems an illusion away.\n\nMagic has left the world now,\n\nand capital is our friend,\n\nif a 'friend' is what it can be called.\n\nMan has won,\n\nand so the gift to rip the world in two, and walk in a form of blood, and pavement,\n\nand eat the blasphemers,\n\nwould be a consolation,\n\nsome consolation.\n\n'Reality' has won, they say.\n\nIts name is addiction,\n\nand obsession,\n\nand love.\n\nBetter to be the monster,\n\nto live in control,\n\nwithout suffering,\n\nI may think, than to suffer needless in empty laughter,\n\nmay not be easier,\n\nbut might be the greatest salvation,\n\nfor me?\n\nYes.\n\n  \n  \n\n"}