{"sf1_id":927374,"sf2_id":"dmBG8VQn","title":"Beautiful","author":"Matt Foxwolf","words":137,"posted_at":"2015-10-28T14:54:00.000Z","tags":["Poem"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/927374-beautiful","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/dmBG8VQn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/dc/37/dc377fec-49ac-46b6-a3c6-48ca4bda2b3f","description":"#1 of Po-eems\n\nHastily scribbled one day at work some months ago. Completely forgot it until now.","content":"Like a flute made out of clear wax  \nLike fresh polish on an old tenor sax  \nLike an old barfly who remembers how to sing  \nLike a fragile crystal bell with a celestial ring  \nLike childhood's shining toy ball  \nLike someone named after alcohol  \nLike giving up cigarettes (and this time meaning it)  \nLike hearing your favorite song and really feeling it  \nLike a summer morning, like a winter night  \nLike a spring apple after the very first bite  \nLike a piece of gold hauled up from the brine  \nLike a bottle of vintage wine, a new spool of twine  \nLike woodsmoke and diesel, the smell of autumn  \nLike a 1930's film actress and her lace-framed bottom  \nLike breaching the astral plane, intense erudition  \nLike the first drop of beer after a long intermission  \n  \nYou are  \nBeautiful\n\n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Po-eems","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/944636-in-misty-pools-way-down-below.json"}}