{"id":366,"date":"2022-04-08T00:18:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T00:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-2\/?page_id=366"},"modified":"2022-04-25T05:31:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T05:31:29","slug":"the-things-inside-us-crawl","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/poetry\/the-things-inside-us-crawl\/","title":{"rendered":"The Things Inside Us Crawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Emma Zozzaro<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pig succumbs to man<\/p>\n<p>Because man holds the cleaver<\/p>\n<p>And the dog at the foot of the door of the slaughterhouse<\/p>\n<p>Succumbs to man because man holds the pig<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Each of us has too much hunger and fear in him<\/p>\n<p>To live properly<\/p>\n<p>We all have the rotten beasts<\/p>\n<p>Chained and festering in some dark<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Corner of our subconscious<\/p>\n<p>Ardent in their foolish ways<\/p>\n<p>Doing just about anything for a scrap to eat or<\/p>\n<p>A few more days lived in utter terror<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And miserable paranoia<\/p>\n<p>In our dumbfounded acts of subservience<\/p>\n<p>To these ugly yet essential human elements<\/p>\n<p>We find ourselves hunched over<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Words become gruff and incoherent<\/p>\n<p>And we are something four-legged with hooves<\/p>\n<p>Or claws<\/p>\n<p>And a jaw set to kill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Zozzaro &nbsp; The pig succumbs to man Because man holds the cleaver And the dog at the foot of the door of the slaughterhouse Succumbs to man because man holds the pig &nbsp; Each of us has too much hunger and fear in him To live properly We all have the rotten beasts Chained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-366","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/366\/revisions\/367"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}