{"id":309,"date":"2020-11-18T01:29:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-1\/?page_id=309"},"modified":"2020-11-20T13:29:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T13:29:45","slug":"adhd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/adhd\/","title":{"rendered":"ADHD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong><em>ADHD<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\n\u00a0\nI wanted to have a word with you.\u00a0\n\u00a0\nIt was like a bad movie, made by one of those auteurs;\u00a0\nOr, I forget the term\u00a0\nthat I mean to say --\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0the opposite of that,\u00a0\n      like a moon to a sun.\u00a0\n      Anyway, with mind skipping\u00a0\nlike celluloid,\u00a0\n\u00a0\nI wanted to focus but\u00a0couldn\u2019t\u00a0\u00a0\nConcentrate\u00a0\n\u00a0\nBut I made a poem as the night played\u00a0\u00a0\n     a trick\u00a0\non my mind, and so unethically\u00a0\nbound\u00a0\n\u00a0\nEvery word,\u00a0\u00a0\nwhich was chopped up into almost\u00a0\u00a0\n                      nothing\u00a0\nand wanting to turn the\u00a0\u00a0\n                      leaf\n\u00a0\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0                    (to leaf through or pull through \n                                   or whatever I meant to say\n                           then)\u00a0\n                      to cover up the meaning of the word,\u00a0\u00a0\nto flow down a river as smooth as a glass of wine,\u00a0\n    a\u00a0Cava\u00a0\nfrom some European winery that I cannot pronounce\u00a0\neven though I idolize the place like a personification\u00a0\n\u00a0\nAnd I\u00a0\n       Swerved\u00a0\nto avoid the misunderstanding, did\u00a0\nwhat I could\u00a0\u00a0\nto produce\u00a0\n                                                           Noise.\u00a0\n\u00a0\nPerhaps this\u00a0is a new thought,\u00a0\u00a0\n     but only to you.\u00a0\nPerhaps\u00a0\u00a0\ninstead, this is an old thought,\u00a0\u00a0\n\u00a0\nFor a word I had with you\u00a0\u00a0\nwas steeped in blue,\u00a0\nand as soon as I had it\u00a0\u00a0\nit bid\u00a0adieu\u00a0\u00a0\nto me, but sadly not you.\u00a0<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nADHD\u00a0 \u00a0 I wanted to have a word with you.\u00a0 \u00a0 It was like a bad movie, made by one of those auteurs;\u00a0 Or, I forget the term\u00a0 that I mean to say &#8212;\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0the opposite of that,\u00a0 like a moon&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/adhd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;ADHD&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-309","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/309","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=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/309\/revisions\/426"}],"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=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}