{"id":16697,"date":"2021-04-05T18:29:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T22:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=16697"},"modified":"2021-04-08T09:24:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T13:24:29","slug":"hoping-for-you-not-to-see-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2021\/04\/05\/hoping-for-you-not-to-see-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoping for you not to see me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beginning each piece again and again<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hoping that I will blend into another<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invisible\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feeling bad for talking<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thinking you\u2019ll hear me\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Head down\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While a backpack pushes\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arms numb with the weight<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of work\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unread books\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deodorant stains\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Staring at the floor\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dodging gum\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Out in the rain\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sprinkles crinkling hair\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Too much spit in tubes\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the midst of chapped lips<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Playing the oboe in class<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The teacher says\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Put your shoulders back.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning each piece again and again Hoping that I will blend into another Invisible\u00a0 Feeling bad for talking Thinking you\u2019ll hear me\u00a0 Head down\u00a0 While a backpack pushes\u00a0 Arms numb with the weight Of work\u00a0 Unread books\u00a0 Deodorant stains\u00a0 Staring at the floor\u00a0 Dodging gum\u00a0 Out in the rain\u00a0 Sprinkles crinkling hair\u00a0 Too much spit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2229,"featured_media":14745,"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\/16697"}],"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\/2229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16698,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16697\/revisions\/16698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}