{"id":196,"date":"2025-04-16T23:56:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T23:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/?page_id=196"},"modified":"2025-04-24T00:10:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T00:10:30","slug":"ode-to-tomboy-ballet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/poetry\/ode-to-tomboy-ballet\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To Tomboy Ballet"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Dyson Smith<\/span><\/p>\n

Tomboy ballet you are the dreamscape\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

the space between spaces the SEGA video game\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

that was too good to remaster Tomboy ballet you\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

are the bones the bones specifically of the decapitated\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

animal smoking on an interstate Tomboy Ballet\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

you are the interstate the magnetic field\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

the friendly confines the grounds crew\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

the invisible labour that makes everything pretty\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tomboy Ballet you are pretty you are everything\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

the everything shower the flower the rose\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

that arose from the Concrete that Tupac made\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

to be a metaphor to about overcoming deep racialized\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

American poverty but y\u2019all make it about y\u2019all selves\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

just like y\u2019all did the moon Tomboy ballet you are the moon\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

the the sickly child spoonfed applesauce which at one point I was\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tomboy Ballet you are the decision boundary\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

that gave me the false agency to judge what makes\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

a metaphor a bad metaphor Tomboy Ballet\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

you are the bad metaphor and just bad if we are able to\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

call anything in this life bad Tomboy Ballet you are\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

the overfit model the unnecessary non-parametric method\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

picking up trends in the data that don\u2019t exist\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tomboy ballet you are the internet microtrend that doesn\u2019t yet exist\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

lucrative enough to change someone’s life to the point where\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

their home becomes commodified, a house\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tomboy Ballet you are every house party I\u2019ve ever been uninvited to\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and every step I\u2019ve stumbled over and still I\u2019m stumbling\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

you are the antithesis a liar wrong in your judgments\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

tattering at the treads the horse at the rusted stable gate of a Midwestern farm show\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Waiting for a fifty five caliber pistol to shoot open the rusted gate to let you\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

run around in a plowed over vast dirt enclosed circle\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tomboy Ballet you are free to run you are free\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Dyson Smith Tomboy ballet you are the dreamscape\u00a0 the space between spaces the SEGA video game\u00a0\u00a0 that was too good to remaster Tomboy ballet you\u00a0 are the bones the bones specifically of the decapitated\u00a0\u00a0 animal smoking on an interstate Tomboy Ballet\u00a0\u00a0 you are the interstate the magnetic field\u00a0\u00a0 the friendly confines the grounds crew\u00a0\u00a0… Continue Reading Ode To Tomboy Ballet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_theme","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-196","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions\/257"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}