{"id":76,"date":"2019-04-09T00:23:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T00:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/14-2\/?page_id=76"},"modified":"2019-04-12T16:03:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T16:03:24","slug":"why-i-wont-touch-bottom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-2\/why-i-wont-touch-bottom\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Won’t Touch Bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jeff Schiff<\/h4>\n

voracious<\/span>\u00a0sludge certainly<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 sucking<\/span>\u00a0at my heels<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0and<\/span>\u00a0certainly\u00a0a father dead early<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

from<\/span>\u00a0blotchy mycosis<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0& freshwater eels<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 eeling<\/span>\u00a0their slime underfoot<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and<\/span>\u00a0a mother ricocheted<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0between<\/span>\u00a0eating and self-image disorders<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0& random remains<\/span><\/p>\n

razoring<\/span>\u00a0the lakebed<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 bedspring<\/span>\u00a0cage<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 fused<\/span>\u00a0pruning shears<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

abandoned<\/span>\u00a0at the public launch<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 and<\/span>\u00a0undifferentiated Jewish dread<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0& snapper turtles with their monumental<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

turtle<\/span>\u00a0axes to grind<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 and<\/span>\u00a0the immigrant embarrassment<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0of<\/span>\u00a0unruly forebears<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

& tangly nightsweats<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 snaring<\/span>\u00a0me\u00a0<\/span>in nets of starry stonewort<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 under<\/span>\u00a0endless rafts of spatterdock<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and<\/span>\u00a0generalized otherness<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0& clasping-leaf pondweed<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0& jetsam shrapnel<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and<\/span>\u00a0notable underachievement<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0and<\/span>\u00a0the universal foreboding of middle age<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0& gulped giardia<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeff Schiff voracious\u00a0sludge certainly\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 sucking\u00a0at my heels\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0and\u00a0certainly\u00a0a father dead early\u00a0\u00a0 from\u00a0blotchy mycosis\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0& freshwater eels\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 eeling\u00a0their slime underfoot\u00a0 and\u00a0a mother ricocheted\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0between\u00a0eating and self-image […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-76","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/14-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}