{"id":26661,"date":"2025-01-30T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=26661"},"modified":"2025-01-31T19:42:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T00:42:47","slug":"asoss-42-expletive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2025\/01\/30\/asoss-42-expletive\/","title":{"rendered":"aSoSS 42 | Expletive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>That\u2019s like people who put their socks over their pants. Ugh.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>That\u2019s horrendous!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Intramural Building, 3:30PM, 1\/13\/2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>the voice you are reading this with is not mine or yours, but a narrator present to your thoughts. first-person omniscience? an enzyme, breaking and rebuilding, a tornado of yarn tangling the threads separating memory from fiction. they are both the same, in a way; there is no way to prove the past, just as there is no way to prove your presence. your finger slips against the needle and you curse softly, a soap bubble of a word, floating out of your mouth and into the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Apparently her nickname at church was <em>church slut.<\/em> Yeah. I guess we\u2019re just leaving it out there.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Palmer Commons, 5:00PM, 12\/2\/2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>ecstasy is paired with dread like a fine wine to a steak: one enhances the flavor of the other. you are frying shallots and mincing the skins, turning them into an autumn leafpile on the cutting board. i don&#8217;t ask what you plan to do with it&#8211;with what? the skins, the oil, the knife? a square of butter falls into the pan and begins to bubble in protest, a witch burned at the stake for predicting the future. a final chemical farewell&#8211;just like the scent of grass, a scream without sound&#8211;as you turn around and pour the scraps down the sink. my stomach drops with the oil, with a hiss. paired with dread, indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What the [-] is wrong with you? You\u2019re showing all of Ann Arbor my ass! Pull my draws up!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Blake Transit Center, 4:30PM, 1\/27\/2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>another theory: for each idea we nurture, ten more sink their roots in the soft flesh of the brain. antheia&#8217;s snakes, long and green and suffocating everything in sight. <em>that&#8217;s not right. you&#8217;re confusing jack and the beanstalk with king midas. and wasn&#8217;t it medusa with the snakes?<\/em> i wave you off. the vines tighten further. delirium is a delicious taste because it convinces you that nothing is impossible. everything, and everything still&#8211;don&#8217;t you see? the beginning is the end of the beginning. the stardust twinkles in your eyes, just to prove a point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s like people who put their socks over their pants. Ugh. That\u2019s horrendous! 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