{"product_id":"9781458200150","title":"Coffee Cup Stains","description":"\u003cp\u003eLife is complicated, plain and simple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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\u003e\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDid You Ever Love Me?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWas fifteen minutes of fun all it was?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDid you even tell her you loved her?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI sit here in the dark listening for the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecreak of the bedroom door. Maybe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyou'll find another source for the anger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaybe you'll be too drunk to notice I'm\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enot asleep. Maybe tomorrow I won't\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehave to lie to everyone. Maybe I won't\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eenjoy what I never should have known.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you ever loved me please let me go for\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI fear my soul is tarnished beyond repair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI am a stone angel cracked and crumbling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease God hear my prayer for I don't want\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto go to Hell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Abbott Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49860407132400,"sku":"9781458200150","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781458200150","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}