{"id":416,"date":"2025-11-16T21:16:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T21:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/?page_id=416"},"modified":"2025-11-18T00:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T00:27:28","slug":"etch-a-sketch-eyes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/poetry\/etch-a-sketch-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cEtch-A-Sketch Eyes\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace;color: #800000\">Sam Hendrian<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Deleted another dating app<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">After one too many offputting come-on<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">From people who were only interested<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">In what they saw behind the bra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">She didn\u2019t want everything<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">So most assumed she wanted nothing,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Projecting their personal priorities<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Upon her etch-a-sketch eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Which was why she washed herself with Dove,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">The least scented soap available<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">As proof she never tried hard,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Never expected more than an apartment tour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Rent remained unreasonable<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">No matter how run-down the kitchenette<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">With cobwebs on the microwave<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">And dust mites in the stove.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Kindness and generosity existed<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">But were gatekept by savior complexes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">And a perpetually imbalanced bedroom<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Because nice guys finish first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Plenty had loved all of her<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">At one point or another<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Albeit piece by piece,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Whichever part suited them then.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nSam Hendrian Deleted another dating app After one too many offputting come-on From people who were only interested In what&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/poetry\/etch-a-sketch-eyes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;\u201cEtch-A-Sketch Eyes\u201d&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"parent":322,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-416","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/416\/revisions\/418"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}