{"id":254,"date":"2020-04-30T02:35:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T02:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/15-2\/?page_id=254"},"modified":"2020-04-30T04:04:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T04:04:41","slug":"cupboards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/cupboards\/","title":{"rendered":"Cupboards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by <strong>Elise Chen<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wake up from my dreams\u00a0<br>And walk\u00a0myself\u00a0<br>To the kitchen\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A ceramic bowl\u00a0<br>Catches my eye\u00a0<br>I fill it up\u00a0\u00a0<br>Add some cereal\u00a0<br>and fill my cup\u00a0<br>with cool milk\u00a0<br>I hold it tight\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Don\u2019t spill it\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<br><em>The mess you make<\/em>\u00a0<br><em>won\u2019t be fake<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oceans rise\u00a0<br>Glaciers fall\u00a0<br>who\u00a0knows\u00a0<br>the cause of it all\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I drop my bowl\u00a0<br>The thick\u00a0\u00a0<br>white ceramic\u00a0<br>cracks\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and tiny pieces\u00a0<br>scatter\u00a0\u00a0<br>across the room\u00a0\u00a0<br>under the couch\u00a0<br>and between the dishes\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As hard as I look\u00a0<br>for as long as I try\u00a0<br>I know I\u2019ll end up\u00a0<br>Stepping on a piece\u00a0<br>and bleeding\u00a0<br>leaving a scar\u00a0<br>on my foot\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wake up with a jolt\u00a0<br>from my dreams\u00a0<br>and go to get myself\u00a0<br>a bowl\u00a0<br>of cereal\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Elise Chen I wake up from my dreams\u00a0And walk\u00a0myself\u00a0To the kitchen\u00a0 A ceramic bowl\u00a0Catches my eye\u00a0I fill it up\u00a0\u00a0Add some cereal\u00a0and fill my cup\u00a0with cool milk\u00a0I hold it tight\u00a0 Don\u2019t spill it\u00a0\u00a0The mess you make\u00a0won\u2019t be fake\u00a0 Oceans rise\u00a0Glaciers fall\u00a0who\u00a0knows\u00a0the cause of it all\u00a0 I drop my bowl\u00a0The thick\u00a0\u00a0white ceramic\u00a0cracks\u00a0 and tiny pieces\u00a0scatter\u00a0\u00a0across the&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/cupboards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cupboards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-254","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254\/revisions\/255"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}