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Description
Taste Tested

You once loved me as if I were edible
I wanted you
to become an aficionado of me, to sample
and whisper
the delicate hints you detected
with each slow, considered taste.
I need you to unfold me like a napkin,
turn me over in your lap,
take me in with your tested tongue,
hold me
within you so
my seasoning dissolves within.
You slurp me in, canned soup,
cast me aside as though I am
nothing more satisfying
than fast food.
Don't you sense that I am spoiling
from the inside
without your hands
to warm me?
Or is it that my subtleties
cannot penetrate your calloused
taste buds, so tired from too many
salted, steamy treats?
You want for me to believe
you are a connoisseur, well versed
in delicacies, but this banquet
is too refined for your
colloquial taste.

Description
Taste Tested

You once loved me as if I were edible
I wanted you
to become an aficionado of me, to sample
and whisper
the delicate hints you detected
with each slow, considered taste.
I need you to unfold me like a napkin,
turn me over in your lap,
take me in with your tested tongue,
hold me
within you so
my seasoning dissolves within.
You slurp me in, canned soup,
cast me aside as though I am
nothing more satisfying
than fast food.
Don't you sense that I am spoiling
from the inside
without your hands
to warm me?
Or is it that my subtleties
cannot penetrate your calloused
taste buds, so tired from too many
salted, steamy treats?
You want for me to believe
you are a connoisseur, well versed
in delicacies, but this banquet
is too refined for your
colloquial taste.