{"id":18523,"date":"2022-02-20T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=18523"},"modified":"2022-01-15T19:32:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T00:32:56","slug":"evolving-emotions-a-churning-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2022\/02\/20\/evolving-emotions-a-churning-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolving Emotions: A Churning Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naked in a world foreign to my body<\/p>\n<p>Tears well up<\/p>\n<p>A refusal<\/p>\n<p>A protest<\/p>\n<p>Amidst the overwhelming reality before me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I tremble<\/p>\n<p>Unable to breathe<\/p>\n<p>Afraid to utter a sound<\/p>\n<p>Suppressing all movement<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For fear that the world will hear me<\/p>\n<p>See me<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledge me<\/p>\n<p>And take me with it<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In its churning jowls<\/p>\n<p>Pressured production<\/p>\n<p>Cyclical aging<\/p>\n<p>And infinite pain<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My heart pleads and bargains<\/p>\n<p>Against what quickly approaches<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am growing older<\/p>\n<p>By the passing hour<\/p>\n<p>Minute<\/p>\n<p>Second<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Forced into the assembly line<\/p>\n<p>With a ball and chain at my feet<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am scared<\/p>\n<p>Of what mechanical existence lay ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18663\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20200811_221924487_iOS-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20200811_221924487_iOS-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20200811_221924487_iOS-2.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naked in a world foreign to my body Tears well up A refusal A protest Amidst the overwhelming reality before me &nbsp; I tremble Unable to breathe Afraid to utter a sound Suppressing all movement &nbsp; For fear that the world will hear me See me Acknowledge me And take me with it &nbsp; In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2246,"featured_media":18426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1774,1520,34,281,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18523"}],"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\/2246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18664,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18523\/revisions\/18664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}