{"id":14786,"date":"2020-12-03T01:54:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T06:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=14786"},"modified":"2020-12-03T01:54:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T06:54:56","slug":"poetry-v-the-world-cold-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2020\/12\/03\/poetry-v-the-world-cold-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry v. The World: Cold eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"648\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wYJuyq1s-PU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This poetry-vlog is brought to you by my parent&#8217;s dining room&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I got the idea for this piece when I showed my roommates what I looked like with the glasses I never wear. One of them regarded that if you need glasses, even only a little bit, and don&#8217;t use them, it can ruin your eyesight. This planted the seed, but then when my brother said that some people think wearing glasses when you don&#8217;t really need to can damage your eyesight, then it was growing.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a certain frustration to this scenario. Rarely do my eyes hurt randomly, but what if those sparse moments get more frequent and it&#8217;s all because of me not wearing the glasses? Or vice versa, where I start wearing the glasses more and because of this my eyesight worsens, meaning I just have to wear them more and more often.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I have no clue what to do, and I wanted to try to capture this is words. I&#8217;m semi-satisfied with how this turned out, but only because there were a few concepts that I wanted the voice of it to touch upon that I think it got. These were things like the weird and subtle superiority I felt for not needing glasses for so long, even though I recognize that&#8217;s preposterous, and other very vague, floaty ideas. This sort of subconscious connection I want the reader to make is a hard thing to pull off, but I think this poem is a good stepping stone for me as a writer.<\/p>\n<p>Also, hope everyone had an great Thanksgiving! Almost done with the semester, so just keep your head up.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Jonah Sobczak<\/p>\n<p>-jonahso<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This poetry-vlog is brought to you by my parent&#8217;s dining room&#8221; I got the idea for this piece when I showed my roommates what I looked like with the glasses I never wear. One of them regarded that if you need glasses, even only a little bit, and don&#8217;t use them, it can ruin your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2230,"featured_media":14051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14789,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786\/revisions\/14789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}