ninji

"Floating like a smoke ring, / It cannot be regained.
Now it's touched, it's broken, /The taste just slips away.
The taste just slips away. / I just want to know.

I don't want to tell you, / What you want to know.
I don't want to tell you. "
-from "taste," by Ride

_taste slips_

you've gone delicious
and here i've lost all the taste in my mouth.

you've gone yummy and meanwhile i feel sour.

i wish that the weight of your lightness
would crush that of my night
crush and kill it
send it sobbing into breathlessness
and finally suffocate it

you, starling
peeling it all back and falling tripping avalanching into love wth it all

i want to take your loving, hold it,
soft heart beating like a bird,
keep it in a locket box
sweet like chocolate box

you,
completely dear and
endearing

you're becoming
my
acquired
taste

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