stomach
relish?
"Better to waste within than to waste without", that is what my father always used to tell me when I couldn't finish a meal. So I would stuff all that shit down my throat and just stomach it. But I always wondered what exactly that quote meant. Now I find myself not wanting to stomach anything. At my first tastebud's disapproval, I proudly remove bite after worthless bite from my mouth. As if I could tell the difference between poison and cure, like water witching with the tip of my tongue to sift through the mold and rot. But no matter your dowsing skillset, you will always swallow down venom. It might just be a drop, it might happen monthly, even weekly, it just comes with the territory. Just stomach it, it's just relish.
"As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has—or ever will have—something inside that is unique to all time. It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression."