{"id":15792,"date":"2024-06-13T21:36:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T01:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/?p=15792"},"modified":"2024-06-13T21:37:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T01:37:00","slug":"yes-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/yes-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hands on my skin;<br>A usual don\u2019t-touch<br>Turned yes-touch-<em>now<\/em>.<br>Now<br><em>Now<\/em><br>Yes,<em> please<\/em>.<br>Please is said oft between us;<br>Enthusiastic consent<br>Has never been more thrilling.<br>Your hands are changing me<br>One touch at a time;<br>Your scent on my skin<br>Driving me to distraction.<br>My nose in my sheets<br>Searching for you\u2026<br>Wait, a promise of <em>more<\/em> touch?<br>Yes, <em>please<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hands on my skin;A usual don\u2019t-touchTurned yes-touch-now.NowNowYes, please.Please is said oft between us;Enthusiastic consentHas never been more thrilling.Your hands are changing meOne touch at a time;Your scent on my skinDriving me to distraction.My nose in my sheetsSearching for you\u2026Wait, a promise of more touch?Yes, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[72,5],"tags":[1048,1047,740],"class_list":["post-15792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beys-tales-writing-2","category-my-life","tag-irl","tag-poems","tag-touch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4sexs-46I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1432,"url":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/ah-quil-est-beau\/","url_meta":{"origin":15792,"position":0},"title":"Ah qu&#8217;il est Beau","author":"Bey","date":"November 20, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0I have a new short story coming out next week called Don't Touch Me in the UnCommon Bodies anthology.\u00a0It's a story about a guy named Beau who has a severe touch disorder. \u00a0It's not erotic. 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