Mouthful of Forevers

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taehyung-ah, aren’t you supposed to be the one taking care of me?” he raises an eyebrow, watching the other; maybe taehyung is only sort of being trained in how he’s supposed to help yoongi, his father still the main caretaker for yoongi. but taehyung’s father is in korea and taehyung was the only one who could actually move to new york with him, so here, he should be doing more. no, guk-ah,” says yoongi, leaning down to press his lips to jeongguk’s forehead. “i’ll always save you. it’s not a burden. i just want you to be okay.”

Mouthful of Forevers by Clementine von Radics | Waterstones

yoongi is frantic as he steps through the front door and into busan, right into the little high school that jeongguk is working at now—he stumbles into a dark hallway, heart racing as he realizes that it’s too late; the time difference means that school is long over. outside, night has fallen, and yoongi curses as he hurries out of the school and onto the sidewalk outside. how is he supposed to find jeongguk like this, when he doesn’t even know where he’s living? or where he might go now?i’ve been working at the high school,” jeongguk adds after a minute. “with the drama department. it’s a poor excuse for one, but the teachers still knew me and they offered to let me help out for a bit. i didn’t—” he pauses, clearing his throat. “i didn’t know if you would find me, so i wasn’t sure what i was going to do.” are you lonely, hyung?” asks jeongguk when they come to a stop in front of jeongguk’s apartment building, night having fallen. he turns to face the older man, hands slipping apart as he searches for the answers in yoongi’s eyes rather than his words. yoongi is very good at hiding things—like pain, suffering. love, too. he’s wrong,” says yoongi quietly. “i mean, he’s right, but—jeongguk. the only one who can even see the sword is the goblin’s bride.”

Mouthful of Forevers by Clementine Von Radics [POEM] Mouthful of Forevers by Clementine Von Radics

and he chose not to tell jeongguk. jeongguk would have pulled out the sword and watched him die and not understood why and yoongi would have just—he would have— yoongi lets out a groan, dropping his head into his hands. there are probably worse people that be able to summon him—worse people that he promised to grant wishes to. but jeongguk is the brattiest one, no doubt, and for good reason; he’s stubborn, and knows what he wants. and knows how to get it, if only by being annoying. if yoongi promised him something, jeongguk is going to make sure that the man makes good on it. Punish the man who hurt me,” Salome ends the poem Salome, Redux, and Mouthful of Forevers is at its heart a collection about exactly that – the rebellion and fight of girls and women. That’s what von Radics’ poetry is about – it is no coincidence that her poetry references women of the past and present, ones whose names are well known and those whose have been forgotten, aside from – of course – her own self.more specifically—they go ice skating. it’s jeongguk’s idea, of course, because yoongi would never be caught dead ice skating unless he was coerced or forced. or because it makes jeongguk happy, and yoongi—would do anything to see him smile like that, all nose scrunches and wonder in his eyes. the problem is simply that yoongi hasn’t ever gone ice skating, which only further cements the necessity of the date in jeongguk’s mind once he finds out. yoongi resists the urge to grab the bottle of vodka under the kitchen sink before heading out. Just like her words in the collection’s titular poem, “Mouthful of Forevers”, suggest, von Radics ultimately writes to heal, both herself and others. It’s a collection of broken hearts and spirits that may have no business becoming whole, but which manage to stumble through knitting themselves together nonetheless. And through her words, she helps others do the same. he can tell taehyung is glowering at him, but yoongi just smirks as he continues cooking. after a moment, he adds, “go bother namjoon.”