{"id":273,"date":"2020-04-30T03:13:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T03:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/15-2\/?page_id=273"},"modified":"2020-04-30T04:06:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T04:06:41","slug":"just-some-thoughts-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/just-some-thoughts-in-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Some Thoughts in the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>by Ricky King<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hate emotional realities.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br>Wishing\u00a0I\u00a0could turn off\u00a0the\u00a0ability to care;\u00a0\u00a0<br>I would like\u00a0to put\u00a0on\u00a0headphones,\u00a0drown out\u00a0surroundings.\u00a0\u00a0<br>Make\u00a0it easier,\u00a0normal\u00a0daily life.\u00a0\u00a0<br>To simply not think about horrors,\u00a0atrocities of this\u00a0world\u00a0<br>Would\u00a0help\u00a0me not feel guilty that I have it easy.\u00a0\u00a0<br>Well, not\u00a0easy.\u00a0Better than someone who\u00a0has to\u00a0\u00a0<br>Freeze their ass off on the wintry Chicago pavement\u00a0\u00a0<br>On the corner of State and Randolph\u00a0<br>Because an\u00a0entire fucking\u00a0world forgot about them.\u00a0\u00a0<br>I wish the world would forget about me.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I could have the slightest impact to help those in need,\u00a0\u00a0<br>The smallest\u00a0influence\u00a0to prevent the planet from\u00a0decaying,\u00a0\u00a0<br>If I could fly across the world to war-torn nations,\u00a0<br>Learn a language I can\u2019t\u00a0currently\u00a0speak to\u00a0\u00a0<br>Apologize about the world\u00a0that doesn\u2019t give a fuck about them,\u00a0<br>To say\u00a0that I genuinely care and would do anything to\u00a0\u00a0<br>Turn the clocks of history back centuries\u00a0\u00a0<br>And try to change things for the better\u2026\u00a0<br>I would do so in a fraction of a heartbeat.\u00a0\u00a0<br>The fraction of my own heart\u2019s pulse.\u00a0\u00a0<br>I wish my heart would stop beating so that someone else\u2019s could.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ricky King Hate emotional realities.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Wishing\u00a0I\u00a0could turn off\u00a0the\u00a0ability to care;\u00a0\u00a0I would like\u00a0to put\u00a0on\u00a0headphones,\u00a0drown out\u00a0surroundings.\u00a0\u00a0Make\u00a0it easier,\u00a0normal\u00a0daily life.\u00a0\u00a0To simply not think about horrors,\u00a0atrocities of this\u00a0world\u00a0Would\u00a0help\u00a0me not feel guilty that I have it easy.\u00a0\u00a0Well, not\u00a0easy.\u00a0Better than someone who\u00a0has to\u00a0\u00a0Freeze their ass off on the wintry Chicago pavement\u00a0\u00a0On the corner of State and Randolph\u00a0Because an\u00a0entire fucking\u00a0world forgot about them.\u00a0\u00a0I&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/poetry\/just-some-thoughts-in-the-21st-century\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just Some Thoughts in the 21st Century<\/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-273","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273","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=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273\/revisions\/274"}],"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=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}