{"id":26359,"date":"2024-12-12T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=26359"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:49:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T18:49:24","slug":"asoss-35-drudgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2024\/12\/12\/asoss-35-drudgery\/","title":{"rendered":"aSoSS 35 | Drudgery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>I wish that would help\u2026 like, abracadabra! That\u2019s how you do the [-] problem! Gee, thanks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Central Campus Transit Center, 9:00AM, 10\/18\/2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>i am seven and the dust bunnies morph into a creature under the mattress, tickling my ankles and stealing my socks. i am fifteen and i learn the taste of love from from a dog abandoned on the roadside. i am thirty and you speak to me in whispers, your voice like tendrils, bending cartilage, bypassing cochlea. i am sixty and the conscience is subdued, the voice tragic. the magic, left to rot with the monster under the bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I\u2019m sick of looking at screens! I mean, that\u2019s what you\u2019ve been doing all day\u2026 my eyes feel like I just wanna take them out, wash them in the sink, and push them back in<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Chem Building, 4:30PM, 11\/14\/2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>at some point the force of habit kicks in and your mind checks out. this is the death of a life, this drudgery. routine makes the mind numb, the soul weak. a counterclaim against optimism: if the rest of the journey is forgotten, you have converted your adventure into a chore. one foot in front of the other, nothing more than a machine. my fingers beg for rest, one letter scribed, one letter typed. this hope hovers above all of us, a claw half-grasped, holding us in place. step out of bounds, slip up, and you will be crushed&#8211;the claw does not care, it suffers from the force of habit as well&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>They\u2019re in the nice heat of their car, we\u2019re in the cold. They can wait!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Central Campus Transit Center, 9:00PM, 11\/14\/2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>a beam of sunlight washes down the flank of the mountain, a bear in hibernation. some days the snow recedes and exposes the conspiracy of survival: the weeds that bloom false flowers, the dandelions that slither between sidewalk slabs. concrete yields to tree roots, roads forked like lightning and runways cracked like eggshells. an apocalypse, a tragedy, a return of equilibrium. the gardens have long degraded, but the soil is still slick with sorrow: a name mother nature remembers, but a face she forgets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish that would help\u2026 like, abracadabra! That\u2019s how you do the [-] problem! Gee, thanks. 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