{"id":410,"date":"2023-12-08T18:59:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T18:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/19-1\/?page_id=410"},"modified":"2023-12-08T18:59:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T18:59:46","slug":"ulysses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/ulysses\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulysses"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"126\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"126\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">Tyler Kaszuba<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cWho are you, who do not know your history?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I asked, face to face with certain death, soulless machines,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">self-devouring husks of Old World ideals and failures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Ignorant words of love for a country long since dead,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">asleep in the fumes of its own perdition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Utter devotion to a forgotten flag, a misguided symbol<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">that forges conflict in the unchanging fires of war.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I died that day you brought apocalypse to the Divide,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">the place that I thought of as home, community,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">torn asunder by the message you had delivered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">You showed me what it takes to destroy history,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">not unlike the savages who thought to honor me with their braids.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">What was once the pride of my tribe, now a meaningless symbol<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">woven by hands that raped. Pillaged. Burned. Mocking history.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">We stand before each other now<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">where America has awoken beneath our feet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Two couriers, their paths like Bear and Bull,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">with the hope to begin again, to let go of the past,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">and the conviction to see it done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">To kill a nation, you need only cut its throat,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">and the symbol dies with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Kaszuba \u201cWho are you, who do not know your history?\u201d I asked, face to face with certain death, soulless machines, self-devouring husks of Old World ideals and failures. Ignorant words of love for a country long since dead, asleep in the fumes of its own perdition. Utter devotion to a forgotten flag, a misguided &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/ulysses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ulysses&#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-410","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/410","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=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/410\/revisions\/412"}],"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=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}