{"product_id":"coffee-cup-stains-thoughts-from-an-autistic-poet-9781458200150","title":"Coffee Cup Stains: Thoughts from an Autistic Poet","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joy Olree\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Abbott Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Abbott Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLife is complicated, plain and simple.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat we see is not what anyone else sees. We see a red rose, but no one else sees that same red, for no one else has our eyes. And that's life. We rely heavily on our five senses-taste, smell, touch, sight, and hearing-but only we can taste, smell, feel, see, or hear how we do.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe poetry included in \u003ci\u003eCoffee Cup Stains: Thoughts from an Autistic Poet\u003c\/i\u003e is based on Joy Olree's own five senses. She was, as Lady Gaga says, born this way-with autism, in a world that cannot fully grasp the meaning. In this new poetry collection, Olree attempts to enlighten that non-autistic world, to make its inhabitants see what she sees.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDid You Ever Love Me?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWas fifteen minutes of fun all it was?\u003cbr\u003e Did you even tell her you loved her?\u003cbr\u003e I sit here in the dark listening for the\u003cbr\u003e creak of the bedroom door. Maybe\u003cbr\u003e you'll find another source for the anger.\u003cbr\u003e Maybe you'll be too drunk to notice I'm\u003cbr\u003e not asleep. Maybe tomorrow I won't\u003cbr\u003e have to lie to everyone. Maybe I won't\u003cbr\u003e enjoy what I never should have known.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIf you ever loved me please let me go for\u003cbr\u003e I fear my soul is tarnished beyond repair.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI am a stone angel cracked and crumbling.\u003cbr\u003e Please God hear my prayer for I don't want\u003cbr\u003e to go to Hell.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Abbott Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47600589570199,"sku":"9781458200150","price":3677.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781458200150.webp?v=1775009114","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/coffee-cup-stains-thoughts-from-an-autistic-poet-9781458200150","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}