There are microscopic beetles<\/span>\u00a0 Slowly<\/span>\u00a0 My question is \u2013<\/span>\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by John Tustin There are microscopic beetles\u00a0mandibles in a whirring blur\u00a0eating holes into the heels of my feet\u00a0and burrowing inside\u00a0each night as I sleep\u00a0\u00a0 Slowly\u00a0mechanically\u00a0perfectly\u00a0over years\u00a0they will find the river of my bloodstream\u00a0and paddle surely upward\u00a0through my neck\u00a0behind my eyes\u00a0into my brain\u00a0\u00a0 My question is \u2013\u00a0will there be anything left\u00a0in there\u00a0for them\u00a0By the time they 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-82","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82","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=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/span>mandibles in a whirring blur<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>eating holes into the heels of my feet<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>and burrowing inside<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>each night as I sleep<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>
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<\/span>mechanically<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>perfectly<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>over years<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>they will find the river of my bloodstream<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>and paddle surely upward<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>through my neck<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>behind my eyes<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>into my brain<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>
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<\/span>will there be anything left<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>in there<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>for them<\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>By the time they arrive?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>
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