{"id":100,"date":"2019-11-20T17:10:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T17:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/15-1\/?page_id=100"},"modified":"2019-12-07T17:06:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T17:06:42","slug":"9-28-19","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/9-28-19\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/28\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5>by Adrian Cole<\/h5>\n<p>Who will write the final novel?\u00a0<br \/>What will the last poem convey?\u00a0<br \/>Over a dim light on ripped pages,\u00a0<br \/>What will be humanity&#8217;s last words?\u00a0<br \/>If I,\u00a0<br \/>A man of\u00a0ill gotten\u00a0luxuries,\u00a0<br \/>Found my days counted.\u00a0<br \/>Will I tell the last\u00a0story\u00a0<br \/>By firelight as the world falls\u00a0down?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Around the ears and on our tongues\u00a0<br \/>We all know what we want our last words to be.\u00a0<br \/>Hers were \u201cYou should\u2019ve been there.\u201d but also \u201cHave a good day at school.\u201d.\u00a0<br \/>Hers I can&#8217;t remember though she pulled me close to the bed.\u00a0<br \/>Whispered them into my ear before I was told go home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Around the ears and on our tongues<br \/>We all know what we want our last words to be.\u00a0<br \/>Thrilling things, spiteful remarks,\u00a0last\u00a0I loves, and muted acceptances.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0somewhere\u00a0 a\u00a0clock strikes.\u00a0<br \/>A counter\u00a0starts.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>There\u2019s a race to be the last one writing\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>The last line.\u00a0<br \/>They all must write their epics.\u00a0<br \/>Knowing glory,\u00a0<br \/>We forget the impermanence of pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Adrian Cole Who will write the final novel?\u00a0What will the last poem convey?\u00a0Over a dim light on ripped pages,\u00a0What will be humanity&#8217;s last words?\u00a0If I,\u00a0A man of\u00a0ill gotten\u00a0luxuries,\u00a0Found my days counted.\u00a0Will I tell the last\u00a0story\u00a0By firelight as the world falls\u00a0down? \u00a0 Around the ears and on our tongues\u00a0We all know what we want our <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/9-28-19\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-100","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}