{"id":326,"date":"2021-04-14T01:04:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T01:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-2\/?page_id=326"},"modified":"2021-04-28T20:13:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T20:13:38","slug":"do-you-remember","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/do-you-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Remember?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Kallias Caddel<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was six.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was no explanation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was no kiss goodbye.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you dropped me off at that gas station with that stranger behind the counter,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I questioned where you were going,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you were coming back.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And as she put me to work<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wondered,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What did I do wrong.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you remember?<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was eleven.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a school night.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You told me to just sit and do my homework for a while.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bar stool was uncomfortable.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I fell asleep to the sounds of billiards and drunks.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While my friends spent their evenings in their warm homes,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was at the cruel bars with you.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was so young.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you remember?<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was seventeen.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was curled into a ball in the corner of my room.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You were screaming at me.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t know what I did.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I could smell the alcohol on your breath.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You yanked your leg back<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And kicked me.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had so many bruises,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even some that you couldn\u2019t see.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I still do.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you remember?<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am twenty-two.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am broken.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am healing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am what you made me.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have so many questions.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you remember?<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because I do.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I remember it all.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kallias Caddel &nbsp; I was six. There was no explanation. There was no kiss goodbye. As you dropped me off at that gas station with that stranger behind the counter, I questioned where you were going, If you were coming back. And as she put me to work I wondered, What did I do wrong.&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/do-you-remember\/\">Continue Reading Do You Remember?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-326","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}