The last line by Yi Lei<\/p>\n
Long, long ago, a dried, kosher salami The last line by Yi Lei Long, long ago, a dried, kosher salami sought me out and filled my world with a fervor for the chewy comfort of that pinched and shriveled skin. Becoming a vegetarian, my cravings turned away from my childhood and hunted…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91263,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89975\/revisions\/91263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nsought me out and filled my world with a fervor
\nfor the chewy comfort of that
\npinched and shriveled skin.
\nBecoming a vegetarian, my cravings turned away from my
\nchildhood and hunted out recipes of beans and lentils with
\na multitude of casseroles combining rice or noodles
\nwith greens and cheeses.
\nFlirting with the world of the vegan, I found
\na passion for a vegan jerky and would eat bags
\nof it during lunch at work as a kind of homage
\nto that cured meat I was so fond of.
\nNow with disease and the ongoing pandemic,
\nI have landed into the world of dried mangos
\nand chew with such pleasure despite everything.
\nDesire is dead, long live desire<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"