{"id":269,"date":"2023-12-06T02:27:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T02:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/19-1\/?page_id=269"},"modified":"2023-12-06T02:29:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T02:29:02","slug":"now-let-me-recede","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/now-let-me-recede\/","title":{"rendered":"Now let me recede"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"126\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"126\">\n<h5>Nico Samuels<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Now let me recede<\/p>\n<p>Give me a sedative of your choosing,<\/p>\n<p>and let me stare off and lose myself<\/p>\n<p>in the tiny cracks of my mind<\/p>\n<p>decorated with fading memories of<\/p>\n<p>What I and time nearly forgot,<\/p>\n<p>but what I manage to cling too&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>vestiges of innocence which were<\/p>\n<p>heartlessly ripped from you and I<\/p>\n<p>and all our cohorts<\/p>\n<p>who sought \u201ctruth\u201d too soon!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>THAT WORD IS MEANINGLESS NOW<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let me stare off and lose myself<\/p>\n<p>in the tiny cracks of my mind<\/p>\n<p>Soon they will all turn to breaking waves<\/p>\n<p>clutching consciousness; memorizing its new patterns<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you can, please keep me restrained. Make me to sit.<\/p>\n<p>Still as still<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Samuels Now let me recede Give me a sedative of your choosing, and let me stare off and lose myself in the tiny cracks of my mind decorated with fading memories of What I and time nearly forgot, but what I manage to cling too&#8211; vestiges of innocence which were heartlessly ripped from you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/now-let-me-recede\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Now let me recede&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-269","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269\/revisions\/270"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}