{"id":231,"date":"2020-11-18T01:11:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-1\/?page_id=231"},"modified":"2020-11-20T14:04:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T14:04:46","slug":"dirty-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/dirty-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dirty Work\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">you come home each day to look at her\u00a0<br>to look at her texting him.\u00a0\u00a0<br>she smiles\u00a0\u00a0<br>and forgets everything she ever liked about you.\u00a0<br>you taste blood in your mouth.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">she looks up\u00a0<br>you look away.\u00a0\u00a0<br>the lease you signed\u00a0\u00a0<br>dancing the walls of your asylum.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">you beat the hell out of them until\u00a0<br>they remind you\u00a0\u00a0<br>of you.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">you cook for her still\u00a0<br>and clean for her too.\u00a0<br>you love her sometimes\u00a0<br>and cry for her too.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">she invades your room and your bed and begs.\u00a0\u00a0<br>she begs to be held.\u00a0\u00a0<br>you do that too.\u00a0\u00a0<br>she asks for everything and takes more.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">in your arms\u00a0<br>she awaits your old friend to come and take your place.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nDirty Work\u00a0 you come home each day to look at her\u00a0to look at her texting him.\u00a0\u00a0she smiles\u00a0\u00a0and forgets everything she ever liked about you.\u00a0you taste blood in your mouth.\u00a0 she looks up\u00a0you look away.\u00a0\u00a0the lease you signed\u00a0\u00a0dancing the walls of&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/dirty-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Dirty Work&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/no-intro.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-231","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions\/444"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}