Taste
your kiss always tastes like vodka.
i love brandy,
not vodka.
you love vodka,
not brandy.
i love loneliness,
not desire.
you love desire,
not loneliness.
reasons why we kiss.
because i want to feel loneliness.
because you want to feel desire.
- © Yuu Ikeda 2023
Yuu Ikeda (she/they) is a Japan based poet. She loves writing, reading novels, western art, and sugary coffee. She writes poetry on her website. https://poetryandcoffeedays.wordpress.com/. Her latest poetry collection “A Knife She Holds” was published from Newcomer Press. Her Twitter and Instagram : @yuunnnn77
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