{"id":14923,"date":"2020-12-10T01:56:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T06:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=14923"},"modified":"2020-12-15T16:27:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T21:27:25","slug":"poetry-v-the-world-used-to-be-afraid-of-going-bald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2020\/12\/10\/poetry-v-the-world-used-to-be-afraid-of-going-bald\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry v. The World: Used to be afraid of going bald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"648\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CXTVpuVpXpw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When I got that buzzcut, I was in the 8th grade, if I remember correctly. I liked it when I walked back the the lobby, but the look on my mom&#8217;s face was unbelievable. It&#8217;s actually incredibly entertaining to look back on, because she was so shocked and I had this just like &#8220;yeah, whatever&#8221; demeanor about it all. She knew I didn&#8217;t like it before I knew.<\/p>\n<p>I always take a shower after I get a haircut, still pretty much to this day, to get all the little pieces off of me. And when I was just putting my foot in the shower, I looked back to the mirror. Something about being naked and vulnerable with my nearly shaved head, I couldn&#8217;t take it.<\/p>\n<p>I got over it in like two weeks, but it was still the first time vanity had really taken a toll on me. The teenage angst was setting in, and it was there to stay for a while.<\/p>\n<p>But!! It&#8217;s got a positive end. I still feel I&#8217;m slightly reliant on vanity for my self-esteem, but overall I&#8217;ve come a long way. When I was going through those phases, my parents and family members always told me that I would grow out of it. And young me didn&#8217;t doubt them, but it&#8217;s nearly impossible to look into the future when you&#8217;re self-conscious in the present is so fragile. So I just kept my head down.<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m honest, I think this poem would fit better into a collection. It kind of jumps from two large stages of growing up with little transition and minimal details. I feel the context of a piece inside of a collection is huge. Like way bigger than people give it credit for. Just in terms of emotional variance, imagine reading a poem about like&#8230; leaves falling, and then being thrown into a narrative poem bout World War II. There&#8217;s a lot of poetry just in how you structure the things you make, and I&#8217;m excited to read more into that in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, please do be well and remember that vanity is nothing. [Steps off soapbox]<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Jonah Sobczak<\/p>\n<p>-jonahso<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I got that buzzcut, I was in the 8th grade, if I remember correctly. I liked it when I walked back the the lobby, but the look on my mom&#8217;s face was unbelievable. It&#8217;s actually incredibly entertaining to look back on, because she was so shocked and I had this just like &#8220;yeah, whatever&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2230,"featured_media":14234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1628],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14923"}],"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=14923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14924,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14923\/revisions\/14924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}