{"id":24613,"date":"2023-12-19T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=24613"},"modified":"2023-12-19T00:53:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T05:53:03","slug":"asoss-06-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2023\/12\/19\/asoss-06-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"aSoSS 06 | Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>He\u2019d say something horrendous and then turn and look at me and be like \u201cright?\u201d Um, no??<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8211; Mosher-Jordan Dining Hall, 12\/1\/2023<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>humans are strange creatures. with which other species is the support of one is enough to guide the gaze of a hundred? we come up with words and use them to convince others that the words we utter are true. have you ever met a false preacher? don&#8217;t let the robe deceive you &#8212; as harry frankfurt says, <em>bullshit is not false, but phony<\/em>. you flop like a fish out of water. are you acting to sell, or are you selling your act?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We can style people\u2019s hair but we have to have neutral hairstyles ourselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Exactly, it doesn\u2019t make sense. The times are changing\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In-N-Out, 1:30PM, 12\/12\/2023<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>i meet you outside the gates of the airport. for some reason, i was afraid i wouldn&#8217;t recognize you. you&#8217;d cut your hair, i noticed. i later learn that this was in a time of crisis. why wasn&#8217;t i there to support you? i was scared. your face splits my vision, like a crystal of ice in the sunshine. emeralds glisten. i reach out to grab them &#8212; your hands, your gemstones &#8212; and they are cold, impossibly so. my fingers burn. you melt away and stain the epoxy, streaks of luggage mixed with strands of your hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Yeah, I\u2019m a senior this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How\u2019s that going?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It\u2019s pretty busy\u2026 when I\u2019m not at school or working I hang with my friends a lot\u2026 my mental health is basically dependent on being able to see my friends, so I\u2019m not home a lot, I know my mom doesn\u2019t like that\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hong Kong Gifts, 12:00PM, 12\/16\/2023<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:19px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>a quiet disconnect from reality. i am four again and watching from waist-height as high school students sip and chatter away. time passes through a polaroid: oblique, grainy, heavily accented. i remember sitting at a cafe and watching a young child stare. i was that student once, just once, before i met you. perhaps i stared my way into your life, just as your eyes stared their way into mine. friends, lovers, students, mothers. i am four again, but this time i look away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019d say something horrendous and then turn and look at me and be like \u201cright?\u201d Um, no?? &#8211; Mosher-Jordan Dining Hall, 12\/1\/2023 humans are strange creatures. with which other species is the support of one is enough to guide the gaze of a hundred? we come up with words and use them to convince others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2272,"featured_media":24293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2077,1257,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24613"}],"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\/2272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24613"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24624,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24613\/revisions\/24624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}