{"id":446,"date":"2025-11-17T22:54:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T22:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/?page_id=446"},"modified":"2025-11-18T00:29:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T00:29:22","slug":"tales-of-a-migrant-laboror","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/poetry\/tales-of-a-migrant-laboror\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales of a Migrant Laboror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #800000;font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">Shaurya Pathania<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">He owns no rooftop in this foreign land, struggles<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">with the syllables of the new language, reasons the<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">real meaning that he is conveyed, inhibits<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">his misuse but fails. He accepts the fading clothes, food,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">the torn branded shoes from his old age employer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">He talks fondly of his homeland, uses some phrases<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">of his native tongue while eating his food.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">He has never gone to any school<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">but his children do, he sounds proud. He eats<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">as if there\u2019s no tomorrow,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">laughs when someone points this out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">His stomach is almost stitched to his back, he<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">struggles with tobacco and alcohol,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">some local contractors as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">He knows how to build a wall and over the last decade he<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">has learned harvesting and managing crops as well. He<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">returns to his home once in a year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">He is a Lone wolf; he encounters the entire field on his<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">own, he is never afraid, doesn\u2019t know how to act tired.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">He works with a sickle in a wheat field, his skin is wheatish<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">too but when he sweats, he shines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco, monospace\">He\u2019s almost golden.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nShaurya Pathania He owns no rooftop in this foreign land, struggles with the syllables of the new language, reasons the&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/poetry\/tales-of-a-migrant-laboror\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Tales of a Migrant Laboror&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-446","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/446","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=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/21-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/446\/revisions\/447"}],"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=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}